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.
Claire Booth – Throwing Shadows
Every crime story begins with geography. As a reporter, Claire Booth once lived inside the cartography of violence, mapping its bloodied coordinates for readers of daily newspapers.
Loxley Browne – The Charms Series
With The “Charms” series Loxley Browne has created for young readers a kind of interactive artifact, peppered with graph paper, sketch spaces, and prompts for personal reflection.
Tom Epperson – Baby Hawk
Hear the Conversation | Get the Book For Tom Epperson, the spark of creativity struck unexpectedly, as so many stories do, with a fleeting glance, a momentary interruption in the quiet rhythm of his life in Culver City, California. Pausing from his work on a novel, he sipped his coffee and gazed...
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
In the mythical cartography of the American South, there are the hallowed grounds of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha and the gothic humidity of Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia. And then there is the world S.A. Cosby is building, brick by bloody brick, out of the soil of his native southeastern Virginia. It...
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.
Megan Abbott – El Dorado Drive
In El Dorado Drive, Megan returns to the terrain that has become her calling card, places where social rituals are precise, femininity is choreographed, and beneath the polish lies a festering urgency.
Alex Kenna – Burn This Night
What happens when an author, who also happens to be a dynamic prosecutor imagines the worst possible person’s darkest intentions Alex Kenna hits it out of the park.
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.