Crime and Wine: Novelist Chats with Pamela Fagan Hutchins

For NYT bestselling author Robert Dugoni and A STEEP PRICE on Wine Women & Writing Radio with Pamela Fagan Hutchins, we're pulling out the good stuff: the 2014 Harrison Hill from Washington's DeLille Cellars.

Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. When the body turns up in an abandoned well, Tracy’s suspicions are confirmed. Estranged from her family, the victim had balked at an arranged marriage and had planned to attend graduate school. But someone cut her dreams short.

Solving the mystery behind the murder isn’t Tracy’s only challenge. The detective is keeping a secret of her own: she’s pregnant. And now her biggest fear seems to be coming true when a new detective arrives to replace her. Meanwhile, Tracy’s colleague Vic Fazzio is about to take a fall after his investigation into the murder of a local community activist turns violent and leaves an invaluable witness dead.

Two careers are on the line. And when more deadly secrets emerge, jobs might not be the only things at risk.

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Wine Women & Writing Radio with Pamela Fagan Hutchins welcomes #1 NYT bestselling author Susan Mallery and WHEN WE FOUND HOME.

Susan writes books about the relationships that define women's lives—romance, friendship, family. With compassion and humor, Susan keenly observes how people think and feel, in stories that take readers on an emotional journey. Sometimes heartbreaking, often funny, and always uplifting, Susan's books have spent more than 200 weeks on the USA Today bestsellers list, thanks to her ever growing legions of fans.

Susan lives in Seattle with her husband, two ragdoll cats, and a small poodle with delusions of grandeur. Her heart for animals has led Susan to become an active supporter of the Seattle Humane Society. Animals play a big role in her books, as well, as she believes they're an integral component to a happy life. Visit Susan online at www.SusanMallery.com.

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For 2x-Edgar Winner Lori Roy and THE DISAPPEARING, Wine Women & Writing Radio is tipping back a good Woodford Whiskey in honor of one of her favorite authors, Pat Conroy.

In THE DISAPPEARING, Lori spins a twisted, atmospheric tale about a small Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away. THE DISAPPEARING questions the endurance of family bonds, the dangers of dark rumors and small town gossip, and how sometimes home is the scariest place of all.

Lori was born and raised in the Midwest where she attended and graduated from Kansas State University. She is the author of the Edgar Award-Winning BENT ROAD. Her most recent novel, LET ME DIE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS, received the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel of 2015, making Lori the first woman to win Best First and Best Novel and the third person to do so.

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Wine Women & Writing Radio with Pamela Fagan Hutchins welcomes international bestseller Claire Cameron and the haunting, suspenseful, and profoundly moving novel THE LAST NEANDERTHAL which asks us to reconsider all we think we know about what it means to be human. If you prefer the video version, you can watch it here: youtu.be/Yd2vPXR1NbI.

Forty thousand years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find her a mate.

But the unforgiving landscape takes its toll, and Girl is left alone to care for Runt, a foundling of unknown origin. As Girl and Runt face the coming winter storms, Girl realizes she has one final chance to save her people, even if it means sacrificing part of herself.

In the modern day, archaeologist Rosamund Gale works well into her pregnancy, racing to excavate newly found Neanderthal artifacts before her baby comes. Linked across the ages by the shared experience of early motherhood, both stories examine the often taboo corners of women's lives.

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As a journalist, Christina Hoag had her laptop searched by Colombian guerrillas and phone tapped in Venezuela, was suspected of drug trafficking in Guyana, hid under a car to evade Guatemalan soldiers, and posed as a nun to get inside a Caracas jail. She's interviewed gang members, bank robbers, gunmen, thieves and thugs in prisons, shantytowns and slums, not to forget billionaires and presidents, some of whom fall into the previous categories. Now she writes about such characters in her fiction.

Her noir crime novel "Skin of Tattoos" was a finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for suspense, while her thriller "Girl on the Brink" was named to Suspense Magazine’s Best of 2016 YA list. She also co-authored "Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence," a groundbreaking book on violence intervention used in several universities.

Born in New Zealand, Christina grew up as an expat around the world. She resides in Los Angeles and teaches creative writing at a maximum-security prison. She has also mentored at-risk teen girls in creative writing in South and East Los Angeles. She has been a speaker at numerous writers' conferences and groups, bookstores, and libraries

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Elena Hartwell was born in Bogota, Colombia, while her parents were in the Peace Corps. Her first word was "cuidado." At the age of nine months, she told two men carrying a heavy table to be careful in their native tongue. She's been telling people what to do ever since. After almost twenty years in the theater, Elena turned her playwriting skills to novels

About Three Strikes, You're Dead: Private investigator Eddie Shoes heads to a resort outside Leavenworth, Washington, for a mother-daughter getaway weekend. Eddie’s mother Chava wants to celebrate her new job at a casino by footing the bill for the two of them, and who is Eddie to say no? On the first morning, Eddie goes on an easy solo hike, and a few hours later, stumbles upon a makeshift campsite and a gravely injured man. A forest fire breaks out and she struggles to save him before the flames overcome them both. Before succumbing to his injuries, the man hands her a valuable rosary. He tells her his daughter is missing and begs for her help. Is Eddie now working for a dead man? Barely escaping the fire, Eddie wakes in the hospital to find both her parents have arrived on the scene. Will Eddie’s card-counting mother and mob-connected father help or hinder the investigation? The police search in vain for a body. How will Eddie find the missing girl with only Eddie’s memory of the man’s face and a photo of his daughter to go on? Book 3 in the Eddie Shoes Mystery Series, which began with One Dead, Two to Go.

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Linda Rae is one of the architects behind reader/author getaway experience, Wild Deadwood Reads, which in turn led to the spin off WILD DEADWOOD TALES ANTHOLOGY, from bestselling Wild Deadwood Reads authors, benefitting Western Sports Foundation.

Wine Women & Writing Radio with Pamela Fagan Hutchins is serving Calamity Jane red table wine from Black Hills' Prairie Berry Winery. "Calamity Jane is an Old West legend who lived and died in SD. Visit her grave in Deadwood and hear stories (true or not) about her in the local lore.This wine is a salute to the women who dare to write their own stories, whether in Deadwood in the 1800s, or in Hill City in the 2000s."

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Mary Alice Monroe and BEACH HOUSE REUNION have inspired us to pour Magnolia from Deep Water Vineyard in South Carolina for this episode of Wine Women & Writing. Magnolia is a sweet white that's like kicking your shoes off and enjoying an endless summer. It pairs well with the BEACH HOUSE REUNION, a novel beautifully wrought and rich with keen insight; an illuminating tale of new beginnings, resilience, and one family’s enduring love.

NYT bestseller Monroe is known for her intimate portrayals of women's lives and keen eye to setting. She writes richly textured books that delve into the complexities of interpersonal relationships and the parallels between the land and life. Monroe found her true calling in environmental fiction when she moved to coastal South Carolina. Already a successful author, she was captivated by the beauty and fragility of her new home. Her experiences living in the midst of a habitat that was quickly changing gave her a strong and important focus for her novels.

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In honor of C.C. Hunter and THIS HEART OF MINE, Wine Women & Writing Radio is serving up a Lewis Wines 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon-Tempranillo from Texas's Newsom Vineyards. NYT-bestseller C.C.—aka Christie Craig—calls this haunting, poignant novel "the book of her heart."

C.C. grew up in Alabama, where she caught lightning bugs, ran barefoot, and regularly rescued potential princes, in the form of Alabama bullfrogs, from her brothers. Today, she's still fascinated with lightning bugs, mostly wears shoes, but has turned her focus to rescuing mammals. She now lives in Texas with her four rescued cats, one dog, and a prince of a husband, who for the record, is so not a frog. When she's not writing, she's reading, spending time with her family, or is shooting things-with a camera, not a gun.

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Like a little supernatural and righting of social injustice with your home renovation mystery? USA Today bestseller Eva Pohler'S got you covered. Join Pamela Fagan Hutchins on Wine Women & Writing Radio for this chat with Eva about mysteries, Greek mythology, basing characters on friends, and much more. Catch Eva's Mystery House Series for more.

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