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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes award-winning author Shannon Kirk to the studio.

Shannon Kirk is the awarding-winning, international bestselling author of Method 15/33 (psychological thriller), The Extraordinary Journey of Vivienne Marshall (Literary Fiction), In the Vines (psychological thriller, July 2018), and Gretchen (thriller/horror, July 2019). Shannon has also contributed to thriller anthologies, Night of the Flood, Swamp Killers, and an upcoming anthology on Border Noir.

Aboout GRETCHEN:

The new tenants have a terrible secret. So do the landlord and his daughter…

Ever since Lucy was two, she’s been on the run alongside her mother. She’s never understood the reason for a lifetime of paranoia, aliases, and lies. All she understands are the rules: never lock eyes with strangers, never let down your guard, and always be ready to move on.

Finally, after thirteen years and eleven states, their next hideaway seems perfect. An isolated, fortresslike place in the New Hampshire woods is the new home they share with its owner, a gentlemanly pianist, and his lonely daughter, Gretchen. She’s Lucy’s age and soon becomes Lucy’s first real friend.

But Gretchen and her father have secrets of their own—and an obsession with puzzles that draws Lucy into a terrifying new game of hide-and-seek. Lucy’s dark past is about to come calling. And this time, for her and her mother in the house on the hill, it might be too late to run.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes crime fiction author Trey Barker.

“Trey ain’t such a bad guy.”

A jail inmate, charged with murder. Murderers, thieves, junkies, those who batter and assault others, rapists, fraudsters, con-men, general whacks. These are not only the people we meet in Barker’s fiction, but some of the people he deals with in the World on a daily basis.But in Barker’s world, both fictional and real, there are also lovers and heroes, the divine and profane, the wonderful and the wonderfully average.

Barker was born in west Texas in 1966 and was raised with music and books and not much else. For a time, his mother was a bookkeeper at a number of clubs (dives all but lovingly so) and there was always music playing. At home, sitting in front of his mother’s bookshelves, dipping into and out of science fiction, humor, horror, crime, there was also music.His fiction is full of both music and criminals.

After a decade there, he moved to north-central Illinois and began working at the Bureau County Sheriff’s Office, where he still is today. He’s a patrol sergeant and an investigator for the Illinois Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

He is the author of more than 200 short stories, as well as the Barefield trilogy – 2000 Miles to Open Road, Exit Blood, Death is Not Forever . Those books are reflections of the darker side of west Texas and are as stripped down and fast moving as anything you’re likely to read. Think David Goodis, Jim Thompson, James Crumley, Ken Bruen.

He also writes the Jace Salome novels, the first of which was Slow Bleed. Look for the second, East of the Sun, sometime in 2016. He is busily at work on the next in the series.

Dr. Natasha Bajema interviews Jon Wolfsthal, a renowned nuclear expert with a career spanning several decades. He is the former Special Assistant to the President for National Security and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control at the National Security Council. Currently, Jon is a Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Senior Advisor to Global Zero. We talk about what it’s like to work at the highest levels of national security policymaking--the White House and the Pentagon. Then we discuss the push for no-first-use of nuclear weapons and renewing the New Start Treaty with Russia.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes Anne Leigh Parrish to the studio.

Her debut novel, What is Found, What is Lost, appeared in 2014. This multi-generational tale speculates on the nature of religious faith and family ties, and was inspired by her own grandparents who emigrated to the United States in 1920.

A third collection of short stories appeared in 2017 from Unsolicited Press.By the Wayside uses magical realism and ordinary home life to portray women in absurd, difficult situations.

Women Within, her second novel, was published in September 2017 by Black Rose Writing. Another multi-generational story, it weaves together three lives at the Lindell Retirement home, using themes of care-giving, women’s rights, and female identity.

Her third novel, The Amendment was released in June 2018 by Unsolicited Press. Lavinia Dugan Starkhurst, who first appeared in Our Love Could Light the World, is suddenly widowed and takes herself on a cross-country road trip in search of something to give her new life meaning.

Maggie's Ruse, novel number four, appears October 2019 from Unsolicited Press, and continues with the Dugan family, this time focusing on identical twins, Maggie and Marta.

Anne has been married for many years to her fine, wise, and witty husband John Christiansen. They have two adult children in their twenties, John Jr., and Lauren.

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Writing Wrongs host and best-selling author William Myers Jr. welcomes international best-selling author Tess Gerritsen to the studio.

Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, “Adrift”, which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week. Tess’s first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her books have been published in 40 countries. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award and the Rita Award.

After an unspeakable tragedy in Boston, Ava Collette flees to a remote village in Maine, where she rents an old house named Brodie’s Watch. In that isolated seaside mansion, Ava finally feels at peace … until she glimpses the long-dead sea captain who still resides there. Captain Jeremiah Brodie has haunted the house for more than a century. Ava confronts an apparition who looks and feels all too real, an apparition who welcomes her into his world — and into his arms. Even as Ava questions her own sanity, she eagerly looks forward to the captain’s ghostly visits. But she learns that the house she loves comes with a terrible secret, a secret that those in the village don’t want to reveal.

Host William L Myers Jr. is an attorney & author that writes legal thrillers. He became one of the top ten bestselling authors for Amazon with his debt novel.

Keven McQueen was born in Richmond, KY. He is an instructor in the Department of English at Eastern Kentucky University and the author of 17 books on topics such as the supernatural, biography, natural disasters, historical true crime and what he likes to call "real life surrealism."

His new book is Weird Wild West.

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DP Lyle, MD is the #1 Bestselling, mukti-award-winning author of the SAMANTHA CODY, DUB WALKER, JAKE LONGLY, and CAIN/HARPER thriller series as well as the ROYAL PAINS media tie-in novels. He’s worked with many novelists as well as the writers of such popular television shows as Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Judging Amy, Peacemakers, Cold Case, House, Medium, Women’s Murder Club, 1-800-Missing, The Glades, and Pretty Little Liars. Doug also hosts the podcast, Criminal Mischeif: The Art and Science of Crime Fiction, which covers all the bases of crime, forensics, and all other manner of dark, disturbing things.

HIs latest book, SKIN IN THE GAME, was released on October 8th and is book one in the new Cain/Harper thriller series.

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Me Too Short Stories: An Anthology

What do women want? A voice. To be heard. Respect. To be believed. Justice. To be both safe and free. The women in these stories have daughters, sisters, friends. The minister worries about her parishioners. The banshee worries about the Hippocratic Oath. The microbiologist worries about her obligation to the dead. They will use any means to protect themselves and those they love: a childish jingle, a skillet full of cornbread, a candle, their own quick wits. We cannot ignore their voices.

About Elizabeth:

Elizabeth Zelvin is the author of the Bruce Kohler Mysteries and the Jewish historical Mendoza Family Saga and editor of two anthologies, ME TOO SHORT STORIES (crimes against women, tales of retribution and healing) and WHERE CRIME NEVER SLEEPS. Liz's stories have been nominated three times each for the Agatha and Derringer Awards for Best Short Story. Another story was listed in BEST AMERICAN MYSTERIES in 2014.

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Dark fantasy and sci-fi author Kathrin Hutson returns to the show! Her novel SLEEPWATER BEAT is an international bestseller and Award-Winning Sci-Fi Finalist in the 2019 International Book Awards. She'll share what she's been working on, what we can look forward to, and more about her writing process.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes crime fiction aficionado and book lover Ali Karim and Barry Forshawn at Capital Crime in London.

Ali Karim is the Assistant Editor of Shots eZine, writes and reviews for many Crime/Thriller magazines; an associate member of the CWA, ITW and PWA. Karim contributed to DISSECTING HANNIBAL LECTER, ed. Benjamin Szumskyj [McFarland PressTHE GREENWOOD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH CRIME FICTION, ed. Barry Forshaw, and ITW 100 THRILLER NOVELS, ed. David Morrell and Hank Hagner [Oceanview Publishing]. Karim is a CWA Gold Dagger Judge and awarded 2011 David Thompson Memorial Award and The Don Sandstrom Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement in Fandom in 2013 Bouchercon Albany.

Barry Forshaw is a writer, broadcaster and journalist whose books include British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, Brit Noir, British Gothic Cinema, Nordic Noir, Sex and Film, Euro Noir, Death in a Cold Climate: Scandinavian Crime Fiction and BFI Classics: War of the Worlds along with books on Italian cinema, film noir and the first UK biography of Stieg Larsson, The Man Who Left Too Soon. He has written on books and films for many newspapers and magazines; he also edits Crime Time, and is one of the talking heads for the ITV Crime Thriller author profiles. He records documentaries on crime fiction and film for a variety of BBC producers for both TV and radio, along with much work for foreign broadcasters. He has been Vice Chair of the Crime Writers' Association. As well as his specialist area of books (in most genres), he writes on film (booklets for special edition DVDs) and all aspects of the arts (popular and serious). He is winner of the Keating Award for Non-Fiction for British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood)