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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes Jessica Barry to the studio.  Jessica Barry is a pseudonym for an American author who grew up in a small town in Massachusetts and was raised on a steady diet of library books and PBS. She attended Boston University, where she majored in English and Art History, before moving to London in 2004 to pursue an MA from University College London and a career in publishing.  She is the author of the bestselling novel FREEFALL and the forthcoming novel DON’T TURN AROUND which publishes from Harper on June 16th.  She now lives with her husband, Simon, and their two cats, Roger Livesey and BoJack Horseman in Portland, ME.  Follow her on Twitter @JessBarryAuthor and on Instagram @JessicaBarry9.

About DON'T TURN AROUND:  322 miles of road. 6 hours. 2 strangers. 1 killer. Too many secrets.

Midnight. Cait Monaghan and Rebecca McRae are on a desolate road that slices through the New Mexican desert. They've never met before tonight.  Both have secrets to protect. Both of their lives are in danger.

When a truck pulls up fast behind them, they assume it's punk teenagers or run-of-the-mill road rage, but it soon becomes clear that whoever is driving the truck is hunting them for sport—and they are out to draw blood.

As the miles unspool and the dangers mount, the pasts they've worked so hard to keep buried have come back to haunt them.  Someone wants one of them dead. But which one?  And given the lives the two women have been leading, that someone could be almost anyone.   If Cait and Rebecca are going to survive, they'll have to learn to trust one another—and themselves. But trust is a costly business, and they’ve both paid the price before. . . .

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Stephanie Newman, author of Barbarians at the PTA is in conversation with host Pam Stack on Authors on the Air.

Desperate Housewives Meets Mean Girls in this Heartfelt and Hilarious Debut Novel about a Mother-Daughter Duo Facing Cliques, Cyberbullying, and Snobs in a Wealthy NYC Suburb

Authors on the Air  presents Alex Rosenberg, historical thriller author and philosophy professor at Duke University.

The Intrigues of Jennie Lee: A gripping and evocative story of love, politics, betrayal and bravery, which reimagines events of the interwar years. Jennie Lee was elected to parliament aged just twenty-four, five years too young even to vote in 1929 Britain. From the Labour backbenches, she hurled barbs and bolts of thunder at the likes of Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, even her own party’s Prime Minister, Ramsay McDonald. The novel intertwines real events with a personal story involving Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, the future Queen Mother; the womanizing fascist Oswald Mosley; the Great War prime minister Lloyd-George; and the radical Labour MP Aneurin Bevan. A series of political and intimate intrigues turn history into thriller when Jennie has the chance to radically change the course of history for Britain, Europe and the world. '...marvellous in so many ways…

About Alex Rosenberg:  Alex's latest novel is a political thriller. Jennie Lee was a member of the British parliament elected at the age of 24, five years too young even to vote for herself. Starting with the real person, "The Intrigues of Jennie Lee" takes Jennie through personal and political crises turning real events into murder mysteries that change the course of European history. Before he became a novelist Alex wrote many books about philosophy. These books were mainly addressed to other academics. But in 2011 Alex published a book that explores the answers science gives to the big questions of philosophy that thinking people ask themselves--questions about the nature of reality, the meaning of life, moral values, free will, the relationship of the mind to the brain, and our human future.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes Elaine Viets to the studio.                                                                                                           About Elaine:        Elaine Viets has written 34 mysteries in four series: the bestselling Dead-End Job series with South Florida PI Helen Hawthorne, the cozy Josie Marcus Mystery Shopper mysteries, and the dark Francesca Vierling mysteries. With the Angela Richman Death Investigator series, Elaine returns to her hardboiled roots and uses her experience as a stroke survivor   Elaine won the Anthony, Agatha and Lefty Awards.

About A Star is Dead:  Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is on the last leg of her one-woman show when she suffers a sudden and fatal illness . . . but Angela Richman thinks there’s more to it. “Ageless” Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is finishing the last leg of her one-woman show in St Louis, Missouri, and the nearby town of Chouteau Forest is dazzled. During the show she humiliates three homeless women onstage, fires her entourage – not for the first time – and makes a bitter enemy of the town’s powerful patriarch.   After she collapses at an after-show party and is rushed to the hospital, she ignores the advice of her doctors and discharges herself in order to return to LA. On the way to the airport she suffers a deadly coughing fit. It was poison. When Angela Richman’s friend, Mario, is arrested for the murder and faces the death penalty, she is compelled to investigate.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes best-selling author Reece Hirsch to the studio.  Reece is the author of six thrillers that draw upon his background as a privacy attorney. His first book, The Insider, was a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel.

About DARK TOMORROW:

FBI special agent and cybercrime specialist Lisa Tanchik faces a deadly threat in this white-knuckle thriller.

FBI special agent Lisa Tanchik is skilled at handling cyber threats, having recently taken down a Dark Web black market worth billions. But ruthless hacker NatalyaX always seems to be a step ahead.

The government calls on Tanchik’s expertise when an email attachment causes a fatal seizure at US Cyber Command. But before she can get her feet under her, the entire East Coast goes dark. A sinister plan is unfolding before her eyes—and no one knows who’s behind it.

Tanchik plunges into chaos to hunt down the true source of the attacks. Close dealings with shadowy figures both online and off expose her to extraordinary danger as the country teeters on the brink of catastrophe.

A soldier on the front line of a cyberwar, Tanchik must nullify the threat before it deals a death blow to America’s institutions—and puts millions of lives in jeopardy.

More about Reece:  https://reecehirsch.com/

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The Authors on the Air Global Radio Network is proud to present this exclusive IN CONVERSATION interview with American's legendary writer JAMES LEE BURKE and writing instructor, author and former private investigator DAVID CORBETT.

James Lee Burke is an American author, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won Edgar Awards for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose, and  the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

JLB's 40th book, THE PRIVATE CATHERAL:   The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny’s father.  As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde’s mother and the mistress of her father, a venomous New Orleans mafioso whose jealousy has no bounds. In retribution, he hires a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcel. This hitman is unlike any the “Bobbsey Twins from Homicide” have ever faced. He has the ability to induce horrifying hallucinations and travels on a menacing ghost ship that materializes without warning. In order to defeat him and rescue Johnny and Isolde, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him throughout his adult life—alcoholism, specters from combat in Vietnam, and painful memories of women to whom he opened his heart only to see killed. www.jamesleeburke.com

David Corbett is the author of six critically acclaimed novels. His book on the craft of characterization, "The Art of Character" was published by Penguin.  www.davidcorbett.com

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack is excited to welcome back to the studio the one and only author and podcast host TOM PITTS!

Tom Pitts received his education firsthand on the streets of San Francisco. He remains there, writing, working, and trying to survive. His shorts have been published in the usual spots by the usual suspects. His novel, Hustle, win the novella of the year from the Authors on the Air Books Awards.  He is also the author of two novellas, Knickleball and Piggyback.  American Statis and 101 released to good reviews and he new book COLDWATER is now available from book eretailers.

Tom is , a live monthly broadcast on the Authors on the Air network.  He's a pretty funny guy, very smart and a kind soul.

Coldwater, Pitt's mew book has received praise from Johnny Shaw, Matthew McBride and other writers of the neonoir genre.  Synopsis: After a miscarriage, a young couple move from San Francisco to the Sacramento suburbs to restart their lives. When the vacant house across the street is taken over by who they think are squatters, they’re pulled into a battle neither of them bargained for. The gang of unruly drug addicts who’ve infested their block have a dark and secret history that reaches beyond their neighborhood and all the way to the most powerful and wealthy men in California.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes former Naval Judge Advocate and author David E. Grogan to the studio.

About Dave:  David E. Grogan served on active duty in the United States Navy for over 26 years as a Navy Judge Advocate. During the course of his Navy career, he prosecuted and defended court-martial cases; negotiated agreements in capitals around the world; lived abroad in Japan, Cuba and Bahrain; deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf onboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise; and actively contributed to the fight against piracy and international terrorism. His third novel, The Hidden Key,  released  in April, 2020. His first two novels were Sapphire Pavilion and The Siegel Dispositions.

About The Hidden Key:  When Kevin Jones opens the door late one night for two men he believes must be fellow Iraq War veterans, he has no way of knowing the chain of events he is about to unleash. One week later, attorney Steve Stilwell is invited to London to meet with a billionaire businessman in a popular Indian eatery. He informs Steve he has already wired half-a-million dollars into Steve’s account. All Steve has to do is serve as executor for the man’s estate. Before Steve can learn more,Steve’s new client cries out “I’ve sold my soul.” Moments later he is dead, leaving Steve to figure out why. Steve finds his first clue in a package addressed to his dead client containing an ancient map etched into a clay tablet. Before Steve realizes the value of the treasure he holds, his dead client’s former lover and the FBI descend on him and his wounded warrior law partner, Casey Pantel, to take the tablet from them. Steve and Casey must unmask those seeking to exploit the tablet’s secrets before they, too, fall victim to its power.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes author Dana King to the studio.  Dana King has earned Shamus Award nominations for two of his Nick Forte novels, A Small Sacrifice and The Man in the Window. He also writes the Penns River novels, of which the fifth novel in the series, Pushing Water was released by Down & Out Books last week. Colin Campbell, author of the Jim Grant series, said of Pushing Water, ““An extraordinary voice. A mix of Pelecanos, Leonard and Wambaugh.” Dana’s work has appeared in the anthologies The Black Car Business, Unloaded 2, The Shamus Sampler 2, and Blood, Guts, and Whiskey, and he’s a regular participant in Noir at the Bar readings in the Washington DC area.

Just because Penns River is an economic backwater doesn’t mean it’s immune from current events. An active shooter at a local discount department store leaves several people dead and the shooter in the wind. Maybe. It’s hard to say as the man arrested at the scene definitely shot someone but claims to be a Good Guy with a Gun. Meanwhile, a Canadian fugitive lands in town and pulls a job to tide him over while his cache of cash makes its way across the border. He and his partner—a local just dumb enough to serve a purpose—see an opportunity and begin a robbery spree while the police focus on clearing the mass shooting.  The usual small-town hijinks still go on: There’s a robbery in the new strip club, an old woman wanders off, a domestic situation that starts as an argument over cookies turns violent, and the widower of a past victim needs attention. The Canadian Mountie who came to town hunting the fugitive may be helpful or more trouble than he’s worth.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes back to the studio Southern author Claire Fullerton.

Little Tea is Claire's 4th novel and is set in the Deep South. It is the story of the bonds of female friendship, healing the past, and outdated racial relations. Little Tea is the August selection of the Pulpwood Queens, a Faulkner Society finalist in the William Wisdom international competition, and a finalist in the Chanticleer Review's Somerset award.      From Claire:  "Music radio led me to the music business, and the music business led me to Los Angeles. During those years, I wrote a creative, weekly column for The Malibu Surfside News, and submitted to writing contests and magazines as I focused on developing my craft.  I wrote a paranormal mystery about a woman who suspects she has lived before, and titled it A Portal in Time. Vinspire Publishing published the book, so I decided to show them the manuscript of my Irish novel. Vinspire Publishing published it under the title Dancing to an Irish Reel the following year. My third novel is titled Mourning Dove. It's a sins-of-the-father, Southern Family Saga, set in 1970's and 1980's Memphis. It was published by  Firefly Southern Fiction in June of 2018, and to date, has won five book awards. Little Tea released in May 2020. It's set in the Deep South, in three locations: Memphis, Tennessee; Como, Mississippi; and Greers Ferry Lake in Heber Springs, Arkansas. It's a story about female friendships and healing the past.

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