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Some criminals attempt to destroy corpses, the primary pieces of evidence in homicides. They think that if the police never find the body, they can’t be convicted. This isn’t true, since convictions have in many cases been obtained when no body is found. And destroying a body is no easy task.

Show Notes: http://www.dplylemd.com/criminal-mischief-notes/31-body-disposal.html

Authors on the Air presents FIRST MONDAY - OPEN MIC NIGHT for all authors who are releasing books in November.

Our studio was buzzing for an hour while the writers told us about their new books for November and what to expect in the future.

Join Pamela Fagan Hutchins on Wine Women & Writing Radio as she talks with perennial Amazon bestseller Kendra Elliot about THE LAST SISTER, whether her readers will get more Mercy Kilpatrick, her friendship and writing partnership with Melinda Leigh, and why she has webbed feet.

Recorded in-person at Bouchercon 2019, the world's premier annual crime fiction event.

For more information on Kendra: http://kendraelliot.com

For information on Pamela, the show, and her books: http://pamelafaganhutchins.com

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes best-selling author Nelson DeMille and award-winning film director and writer Alex DeMiller to the studio to discuss their book THE DESERTER.

ABOUT NELSON: Nelson DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. His novels include Plum Island, The Charm School, and The Gold Coast. DeMille has also written under the pen names Jack Cannon, Kurt Ladner, Ellen Kay and Brad Matthews.

ABOUT ALEX: Alex DeMille is a writer, director, and film editor. He grew up on Long Island and received a BA from Yale University and an MFA in film directing from UCLA. His films and screenplays have won multiple awards and fellowships, including his film The Absence, which played at dozens of festivals around the country and was awarded Best Film at Comic-Con in 2012.

ABOUT THE DESERTER: When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army’s elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer’s Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted a year later in Caracas, Venezuela, by an old Army buddy, top military brass task Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor of the Criminal Investigation Division to fly to Venezuela and bring Mercer back to America—preferably alive. Brodie knows this is a difficult mission, made more difficult by his new partner’s inexperience, by their undeniable chemistry, and by Brodie’s suspicion that Maggie Taylor is reporting to the CIA.

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Dr. Natasha Bajema interviews Patrick O’Donnell and Gavin Reese about the role of first responders in mass destruction incidents. Patrick is a police sergeant in a large Midwestern city where he specializes in undercover work, robberies, violent crimes. He’s also served as the incident commander for multiple officer-involved shooting investigations. Gavin Reese is a retired cop and special investigations detective where he specialized in high-risk police operations such as , international drug trafficking, organized crime syndicates, S.W.A.T. operations, hazardous materials incident response, radiation and nuclear terrorism, and post-blast explosives investigations. He is also the host of Writers on the Beat podcast. We talk about what happens first in a WMD-related incident and walk through two specific scenarios.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes Steph Cha to the studio. We are proud to supoprt the Miami Book Fair where Steph will be attending.

ABOUT STEPH: Steph Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay and the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She’s an editor and critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two basset hounds.

ABOUT "YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY": A powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in Los Angeles, following two families?one Korean-American, one African-American?grappling with the effects of a decades-old crime

In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it’s been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She’s distraught that her sister hasn’t spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Grace’s understanding. Shawn has already had enough of politics and protest after an act of violence shattered his family years ago. He just wants to be left alone to enjoy his quiet life in Palmdale.

But when another shocking crime hits LA, both the Park and Matthews families are forced to face down their history while navigating the tumult of a city on the brink of more violence.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes best-selling author Kerry Anne King to the studio.

ABOUT KERRY ANNE KING:

Kerry Anne King is the sidekick, alter ego, and touchier-feelier doppelgänger of fantasy and paranormal thriller writer, Kerry Schafer. She is the author of Whisper Me This, a Washington post and Amazon charts bestseller. Kerry Anne is the proud possessor of a tugboat, a Viking, and forty acres of rocks and trees in the middle of rural northeastern Washington. In addition to writing novels, she is an RN and licensed mental health counselor, a writing coach and a serious coffee snob. She is kept in line by three cats, a dog, and the aforementioned Viking. Kerry also hosts Creative Quest podcast.

ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU ARE: One tragic twist of fate destroyed Braden Healey’s hands, his musical career, and his family. Now, unable to play, adrift in an alcoholic daze, and with only fragmented memories of his past, Braden wants desperately to escape the darkness of the last eleven years.

When his ex-wife and son are killed in a car accident, Braden returns home, hoping to forge a relationship with his troubled seventeen-year-old daughter, Allie. But how can he hope to rescue her from the curse that seems to shadow his family?

Ophelia “Phee” MacPhee, granddaughter of the eccentric old man who sold Braden his cello, believes the curse is real. She swore an oath to her dying grandfather that she would ensure Braden plays the cello as long as he lives. But he can’t play, and as the shadows deepen and Phee finds herself falling for Braden, she’ll do anything to save him. It will take a miracle of forgiveness and love to bring all three of them back to the healing power of music.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes best-selling author Tosca Lee to the studio to discuss her new book.

ABOUT TOSCA: Tosca Lee is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of The Progeny, Firstborn, Iscariot, The Legend of Sheba, Demon: A Memoir, Havah: The Story of Eve, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker. She received her BA in English and International Relations from Smith College.

ABOUT A SINGLE LIGHT: Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they emerged—the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the IV antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs in order to live. As the clock ticks down on Julie’s life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine and answers. But what they find is not a nation on the cusp of recovery thanks to the promising new vaccine Wynter herself had a hand in creating, but one decimated by disease. What happened while they were underground? With food and water in limited supply and their own survival in question, Chase and Wynter must venture further and further from the silo. Aided by an enigmatic mute named Otto, they come face-to-face with a society radically changed by global pandemic, where communities scrabble to survive under rogue leaders and cities are war zones. As hope fades by the hour and Wynter learns the terrible truth of the last six months, she is called upon once again to help save the nation she no longer recognizes—a place so dark she’s no longer sure it can even survive.

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A wonderful discussion of the ability of women to recreate themselves, and how twin sisters Marley and Andi and their mother Donna from SO LONG AS WE'RE TOGETHER change, survive, and cope with all the damage life can throw at them in this beautiful novel of suspense and mystery set in the Pacific Northwest. Glenda shares the inspiration for the musical roots of this story—her retired father picking up a guitar and teaching himself to play—and the way in which the characters wrote the book themselves.

I think you'll really enjoy this one—the book, the interview, and the author.

For more information about Glenda, visit http://www.glendaburgessbooks.com.

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All treat, no tricks. Just in time for Halloween, Catriona McPherson, author of the Dandy Gilver and Lexy Campbell mysteries, as well as almost a dozen stand-alones, joins me in the Cozy Corner to chat about A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver Book 13) and Strangers at the Gate (a stand-alone suspense).

The Dandy Gilver series channels Golden Age detective fiction as it transports readers to the 1930s. Strangers at the Gate is set in an eerie contemporary Scotland, a perfect read for the spooky season.

Catriona is a Scottish-born California resident who says "book" in the most charming way. She's a multi-award-winning full-time author and a doctor (PhD) of linguistics. She's a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, The Crimewriters' Association, and The Society of Authors. She'll be the Toastmaster at Bouchercon 2020, the SleuthFest 2020 Guest of Honor, and a Left Coast Crime 2021 Guest of Honor.

Find out more about Strangers at the Gate and A Step So Grave on Catriona's website, http://catrionamcpherson.com/

She's also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/catriona.mcpherson.54