C.B. Wilson – The Fire Diamond
What happens when a gemologist writes a thriller? You get “The Fire Diamond”! We chat with author CB Wilson, about her new book, the high-stakes world of jewel thieves, and her “diamond detective” protagonist.
Heather Ogden – The Betrayal
In a world where loyalty can be the sharpest weapon and truth itself is treason, debut novelist Heather Ogden invites us into the haunting depths of her new dystopian fantasy, The Betrayal—the first in The Lies We Fear series.
Charles Philipp Martin – Rented Grave
Charles Philipp Martin’s Rented Grave, re-introduces Inspector Herman Lok, delving deep into the underbelly of Hong Kong, a city caught between modern ambition and the haunting legacy of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
Tim Kirk – All His Damned Mother’s Sons
What if Elvis died while serving in the Army? Author Tim Kirk discusses how his Hollywood chops influenced a tightly plotted tale of 4 men who were influenced by what nobody knew was a seismic event.
Brian Cranley – The Call of Wonder
Hear the Conversation | Get the Book In the bottomless scroll of YouTube’s algorithmic curiosity cabinet, Brian Cranley found a quiet revelation. The video, produced by Fermilab, traced the unfathomable beginnings of the universe—an account of the Big Bang rendered in the measured tones of a...
Leslie A. Rasmussen – When People Leave
Leslie A. Rasmussen’s When People Leave arrives with a gentle dissonance between grief and wit, an intimacy that feels eavesdropped rather than narrated, and an emotional resonance that lingers like the aftertaste of something both bitter and sweet.
S.A. Cosby – All the Sinners Bleed
S.A. Cosby is building, brick by bloody brick, a place, as he describes it, that is at once “beautiful and brutal,” a landscape of sprawling fields and deep-rooted churches, where the long shadow of the past is not a memory but a malevolent and living thing.
Thomas Cullen – Charlie Man
Federal Judge Thomas Cullen discusses Charlie-Man, his coming-of-age novel about Charlie Stewart, a senior at an elite boys’ school, as he navigates heartbreak, pressure, and identity.
Jenny Dandy – The Brownstone on E. 83rd
The late bloom is often the most beautiful. In the case of Jenny Dandy, author, grandmother-to-be, former executive, it arrives as a crime novel set-in classic New York architecture.
Andy Crocker – The Unconditionals
Andy Crocker’s “The Unconditionals” brings a scientist’s precision to five dimensions essential for a meaningful life. The former NASA rocket man’s new book casts a fresh view on timeless wisdom.
Daniel Hendrick – Know You Know
Hear the Conversation | Get the Book Music was imprinted on Daniel Hendrick early. His first solo—”Jesus Loves Me” at age two—was less performance than instinct. The youngest of five siblings in a family that sang as naturally as they breathed, he first heard opera through a Mario...
Dwight Holing – The Thunder Head
Dwight Holing introduces his latest Nick Drake novel, “The Thunder Head,” where developers and ranchers clash over the future of pristine Oregon land and Nick finds himself in the crosshairs.