Steven L. Conley – False Flag
Steven L. Conley’s new espionage novel, FALSE FLAG, is a fictionalized account inspired by the real-life hunt for a Chinese mole inside the FBI. The book occupies that uneasy borderland between thriller and confession.
Margaret Mizushima – Dying Cry
Hear the Conversation | Get the Book In Margaret Mizushima’s Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries, the mountains listen. Snow presses against the Colorado high country with the hush of an accomplice. Canyons conceal more than weather. And a dog’s lifted muzzle may be the first sign that civilization’s...
Dara Levan – Shaken to the Core
Dara Levan is interested in the moments when life reveals its stress fractures. The novel’s title suggests devastation, but the book, as she describes it, is not merely about being broken. It is about what a person does after the breaking.
Steven Rubin – The Unraveling of Michael Galler
Steven Rubin’s The Unraveling of Michael Galler begins not with a monster in the room but with an absence. Michael is eight years old when his mother dies of cancer. From that point forward the world becomes a place where invisible things gather strength in silence.
John Winn Miller – Miriam in the Shadows
John Winn Miller’s MIRIAM IN THE SHADOWS has found in historical fiction what journalism could not always permit: the emotional weather behind the documented fact.
Lena Fein – Shattering the Mirror
Behind Lena Fein’s accomplishments was a child raised in madness, under the shadow of a violent and controlling mother, in a house where cleanliness was worshiped, porcelain dolls were treasured, and Lena’s own spirit was forced into hiding.
Katie Rose Pryal – Your Kid Belongs Here
Some books arrive dressed as manuals, carrying the sturdy promise of advice. Others come as dispatches from the interior, written by someone who has survived the territory and returned with a map. Dr. Katie Rose Pryal’s Your Kid Belongs Here is both.
Caitlin Rother – Staged
What happens when an investigative journalist shifts from documenting true crime to crafting psychological suspense? Welcome to the multi-layered world of Caitlin Rother’s Katrina and Goode series.
Fons Burger – The Only Possible Solution
In Fons Burger’s new book, The Only Possible Solution, the question before him is not whether the world is broken. It is whether we can still imagine it whole.
August Norman – Sins of the Mother: A Caitlin Bergman Novel
It’s been six years since I interviewed August Norman, and since it’s his birthday, I want to revisit our conversation about his addicting Caitlin Bergman novel, Sins of the Mother.
MJ Dyer – We Are Monsters
There is something almost Victorian about the origin story of M.J. Dyer’s We Are Monsters. It begins not with a candlelit manor or a governess on the moors, but in a hospital room, where the author, recovering from brain inflammation, began seeing three identical sisters.
Lee Goldberg – Murder by Design
Lee Goldberg has spent much of his career turning murder into an oddly companionable profession. He’s the sort of writer who speaks about craft as if it were both a calling and a chronic illness.