Happy Birthday, Dame Agatha! In honor of Agatha Christie's 128th birthday. We have added a new episode we will do every once in a while called "In Agatha's Footsteps." Our first recipient is Alan Bradley well known for his Flavia de Luce mystery series. We discuss how Flavia was created and Alan has great advice for novice writers. We then get the party started with presents for each other. Check us out on these mediums
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We review "Semester of Our Discontent" by Cynthia Kuhn. A cozy in an academic setting. https://www.instagram.com/stories/darkandstormybc, https://www.facebook.com/Itwasadarkandstormybookclub/, https://twitter.com/darkstormybc
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We take a break from our normal Bookends episode. We interview Rowland Savage a clinical professional counselor to discuss Psychopaths and Sociopaths in mystery fiction. We highlight a bookclub in Berkley, CA. Mystery Readers NoCal.

We did our first face to face interview with author Jane Jensen. We discussed her Elizabeth Harris mystery series that take place in Pennsylvania's Amish community. We also discuss her other books she writes under Eli Eastman.

On our 9th Bookends episode we interview Ellen Butler and discuss her thrilling book "Isabella's Painting." The book revolves around the art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. We then highlight Mystery Lovers Book Club in Newton, Kansas.

We review "Lone Star" by Ed Ifkovic. The cast of characters is a literal whos who of 1950's Hollywood.
Edna Ferber the writer of "Giant." James Dean's last movie is our protagonist.

On today's episode we will interview Hildur Sif Thorarensen from Norway and discuss her book "Loner." We then interview Joanne Sinchuk former owner and current manager of "Murder on the Beach" mystery bookstore in Delray Beach, Florida.

We interviewed Jane Haseldine who writes the Julia Gooden Mystery Series. We reviewed her first book in the series. "The Last Time She Saw Him" We announced our next book, "Lone Star" by Ed Ifkovic.

We highlight Charles Kowalski answers the questions we sent him about his new thriller "Mind Virus." Christie Capers Book Club in Windsor Lock, CT is our highlighted bookclub.

In this, our 8th full episode, we reviewed our G Book - "Hushabye" by Celina Grace. This was the first in her Kate Redman series. The infant son of Nick and Casey Fullman is kidnapped from his nursery and his nanny has been killed. Casey, a former D list reality TV star is prostrate with grief while her husband Nick is consumed by his business and hardly misses a telephone call. He lets his assistant deal with any and all unpleasant issues.