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An interview with Crime Fiction author Allen Eskens about his new best-seller, NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS.

About Allen: Allen grew up in the wooded hills of Missouri and, after high school, migrated north to pursue his education. He acquired a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the University of Minnesota, and a Juris Doctorate from Hamline University School of Law. He honed his creative writing skills in the M.F.A. program at Minnesota State University and took classes at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.

ABOUT THE BOOK:In a small Southern town where loyalty to family and to "your people" carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying those unspoken rules can be a deadly proposition.

After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isn't being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a child and his sanctuary as he grew older, seem to be closing in on him, suffocating him.

Then Thomas Elgin moves in across the road, and Boady's life begins to twist and turn. Coming to know the Elgins -- a black family settling into a community where notions of "us" and "them" carry the weight of history -- forces Boady to rethink his understanding of the world he's taken for granted. Secrets hidden in plain sight begin to unfold: the mother who wraps herself in the loss of her husband, the neighbor who carries the wounds of a mysterious past that he holds close, the quiet boss who is fighting his own hidden battle.

But the biggest secret of all is the disappearance of Lida Poe, the African-American woman who keeps the books at the local plastics factory. Word has it that Ms. Poe left town, along with a hundred thousand dollars of company money. Although Boady has never met the missing woman, he discovers that the threads of her life are woven into the deepest fabric of his world.

As the mystery of her fate plays out, Boady begins to see the stark lines of race and class that both bind and divide this small town -- and he will be forced to choose sides.

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Authors on the Air has obtained permission to be the first media outlet to interview suspected murderer, Jake Lassiter, from his cell in Miami-Dade County lock up.

In this exclusive interview, broadcast to a worldwide audience, we will discuss State vs Lassiter with the former football player and his mouthpiece, Paul Levine, Esq .

Please join us for this live event --- you won't hear another interview like it.

This is a copyrighted podcast owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network LLC and produced by Pam Stack.

Authors on the Air has obtained permission to be the first media outlet to interview suspected murderer, Jake Lassiter, from his cell in Miami-Dade County lock up.

In this exclusive interview, broadcast to a worldwide audience, we will discuss State vs Lassiter with the former football player and his mouthpiece, Paul Levine, Esq .

Please join us for this live event --- you won't hear another interview like it.

This is a copyrighted podcast owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network LLC and produced by Pam Stack.

To usher in National Library week, crime authors William Kent Krueger and Libby Hellmann share a conversation at the Warren-Newport Library in Gurnee Illinois. Join the audience at the library for a lively and witty discussion, including why they love libraries, what it's like to write crime fiction, and how they are diametrically opposed to each other in their approach.

To usher in National Library week, crime authors William Kent Krueger and Libby Hellmann share a conversation at the Warren-Newport Library in Gurnee Illinois. Join the audience at the library for a lively and witty discussion, including why they love libraries, what it's like to write crime fiction, and how they are diametrically opposed to each other in their approach.

Amy Impellizzeri joins Pamela Fagan Hutchins on Wine Women & Writing to talk about WHY WE LIE. Amy is a reformed corporate litigator, former start-up exec, and award-winning author. After spending a decade at one of the top law firms in the country, Amy left to advocate for working women, eventually landing at a VC-backed start-up company, Hybrid Her (named by ForbesWoman as a top website for women in 2010 and 2011), while writing her first novel. Amy currently lives in rural Pennsylvania where she works and plays and keeps up on all of the latest research confirming that large volumes of coffee are indeed good for you.

Learn more about Amy and her books at http://www.amyimpellizzeri.com.

Learn more about Pamela, her books, and this show at http://pamelafaganhutchins.com, where you can get her free starter library of mystery ebooks.

Wine Women & Writing is a solely owned and copyrighted production of Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.

Instructor and debut thriller writer S. A. Lelchuk and host Maddie Margarita discuss SAVE ME FROM DANGEROUS MEN, writing Nikki Griffin, relatable kick-ass female protagonists, Jack Reacher and play literary Tinder!

S. A. Lelchuk holds a B.A. in English from Amherst College and a master's degree from Dartmouth College. He divides his time between Berkeley, California and Hanover, New Hampshire.

SAVE ME FROM DANGEROUS MEN is the start of a series featuring bookseller and private investigator Nikki Griffin. The series has been optioned for film and television and the foreign rights have sold in multiple countries.

S. A. Lelchuk is a member of the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) and International Thriller Writers (ITW). He is represented by the LGR Literary Agency in New York and the Gersh Agency. Follow Saul at salelchuk.com Twitter @salelchuk

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Maddie Margarita is a writer and host of CHARACTER FLOSS - and entertaining deep dive into compelling characters and the authors who create them. The host of Lit Up!OC - a popular writer's salon in Orange County, California- Maddie is a member of ITW, and serves on the Boards of Sisters in Crime OC and the Southern California Writers Association. Please see links below for her work and events.

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Douglas Clegg is a writer of imaginative dark fiction (including horror, gothic, fantasy, supernatural, and suspense thrillers.)

His books have been published worldwide and translated into various editions. His short fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award and the Shocker Award, and has been included in several Years’ Best anthologies.

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Sylvia Shults is the author of 44 Years in Darkness, Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital, and other books of true ghost stories. She has spent the past twenty years working in a library, slowly smuggling words out in her pockets day by day to build a book of her own. She sits in dark, spooky, haunted places so you don't have to. She lives a short, ten-minute motorcycle ride away from the haunted asylum that features in so many of her books. She considers it the highest privilege to share the incredible, compassionate history of the Peoria State Hospital.

After battling an intense, lifelong fear of the dark, Sylvia decided to become a ghost hunter. (What WAS she thinking?) As a paranormal investigator, she has made many media appearances, including a tiny part in the Ghost Hunters episode "Prescription for Fear", about the Peoria State Hospital. She is also the writer, director, producer, and host of the true ghost story podcast Lights Out, available on YouTube, iTunes, iHeart Radio, Spotify, and anywhere else great podcasts are found.

Tonight Sylvia is here to talk about her book, The Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side of the Holidays.

Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming guests on Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! by visiting Tamara and Alistair at their websites: alistaircross.com and tamarathorne.com

Shawn Reilly Simmons, author, editor, and member of the Malice Domestic Board of Directors, joins me to talk about the 7th book in her Red Carpet Catering Mysteries, Murder on the Chopping Block. Learn what inspired her to create her culinary cozy series. We also chat about the differences between writing novels, writing short stories, and editing anthologies and how a chance visit to a Malice Domestic conference led to more than a decade on the Board. Discover how her name is pronounced in Mexico, what her favorite culinary competition show is, and what our favorite true crime podcasts are. (Spoiler: mine's Small Town Murder.)

Find out more about Shawn: https://www.henerypress.com/author-simmons-shawn-reilly

Learn more about Malice Domestic, the annual fan convention celebrating the traditional mystery and register: http://malicedomestic.org/about.html

Learn about the Agatha Awards, presented at Malice Domestic to honor the best in traditional mystery: http://malicedomestic.org/agathas.html (Spot the teapots in Knives Out).