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Beyond The Cover has returned, well almost, for 2016.  To kick off the New Year, we thought we would play you a couple of great interviews by Robert Crais and Craig Johnson.  Both are powerhouse authors and continue to help fans lose sleep with each new release. 

The show will return on January 18th live. All shows are brought to you by Suspense Magazine. You can visit suspensemagazine.com for more information. If you have any questions please email us at [email protected].

Beyond The Cover has returned, well almost, for 2016. To kick off the New Year, we thought we would play you a couple of great interviews by Robert Crais and Craig Johnson. Both are powerhouse authors and continue to help fans lose sleep with each new release.

The show will return on January 18th live. All shows are brought to you by Suspense Magazine. You can visit suspensemagazine.com for more information. If you have any questions please email us at [email protected].

Welcome to 2016 and another great lineup of Suspense Radio. Inside Edition is where you will hear the very best author interviews, news and much more.

On today's show we have three outstanding authors starting with Alan Jacobson. Followed by Jeff Abbott and then Leigh Adams.

Suspense Radio has four shows on it's network and looking to expand even further. The radio show is brought to you by Suspense Magazine, the leader in genre news and reviews. Check out www.suspensemagazine.com for more information.

Title: Men of Valor: An Interview with Author and Weapons Expert John F. Mullins, Major U.S. Army Special Forces (Ret).

BIO: John F. Mullins joined the U.S. Army in 1960 and served three tours in Vietnam with the Special Forces, initially as a medic and then as an "A" Team XO and CO, and as a SOG Operative after being commissioned in 1964. After retiring in 1981, he has worked as a "for-hire soldier," conducting security and antiterrorism operations in such hot spots as Bogota, Colombia, Beirut, and Belfast. He lives in Oklahoma.

The Story Blender is hosted by author Steven James and Susan May Warren. This is where you will hear great storytellers talk about great storytelling. For more information on the show please visit www.thestoryblender.com

Joe Boyd (Actor, Writer, Producer, Improv Artist)

With a diverse background in acting and improv, and approaching everything with the heart of a dynamic storyteller, Joe talks about the pragmatic side of being a commercially successful artist, all without giving up your passion to produce art. Find joy and meaning in your work as you tell stories that make a lasting difference in people’s lives.

The Story Blender is hosted by author Steven James and Susan May Warren. This is where you will hear great storytellers talk about great storytelling. For more information on the show please visit www.thestoryblender.com

Joe Boyd (Actor, Writer, Producer, Improv Artist)

With a diverse background in acting and improv, and approaching everything with the heart of a dynamic storyteller, Joe talks about the pragmatic side of being a commercially successful artist, all without giving up your passion to produce art. Find joy and meaning in your work as you tell stories that make a lasting difference in people's lives.

Bruce Houlihan is Director of the Orange County Crime Lab in Santa Ana, California, and has been with the County of Orange for 29 years. He spent much of his childhood living in Tokyo, Japan, and also Southern California where he was born. After completing an undergraduate degree in chemistry and physics, he spent a year doing graduate study in chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, and another two years of graduate leadership study at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa. He has taught chemistry and physics at Vanguard University as a part-time adjunct for many years while working for the Sheriff-Coroner as a forensic scientist (formerly known as criminalists). After being hired in the mid 1980’s, he began work in the forensic chemistry areas, specifically toxicology and controlled substance analysis. He served as the president of the California Association of Crime Laboratory Directors, is a member of the American Society of Crime Lab Directors, and is currently participating with NIST on the Organization of Scientific Area Committees during the current national dialog in forensics. Mr. Houlihan serves at one of the largest crime labs in the country, with over 130 forensic specialists, forensic scientists, and support staff. He lives with his family in Orange County, and in his spare time enjoys reading, creative thinking, and puzzles.

Bruce Houlihan is Director of the Orange County Crime Lab in Santa Ana, California, and has been with the County of Orange for 29 years. He spent much of his childhood living in Tokyo, Japan, and also Southern California where he was born. After completing an undergraduate degree in chemistry and physics, he spent a year doing graduate study in chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, and another two years of graduate leadership study at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa. He has taught chemistry and physics at Vanguard University as a part-time adjunct for many years while working for the Sheriff-Coroner as a forensic scientist (formerly known as criminalists). After being hired in the mid 1980's, he began work in the forensic chemistry areas, specifically toxicology and controlled substance analysis. He served as the president of the California Association of Crime Laboratory Directors, is a member of the American Society of Crime Lab Directors, and is currently participating with NIST on the Organization of Scientific Area Committees during the current national dialog in forensics. Mr. Houlihan serves at one of the largest crime labs in the country, with over 130 forensic specialists, forensic scientists, and support staff. He lives with his family in Orange County, and in his spare time enjoys reading, creative thinking, and puzzles.

Ellen Kirschman: "The Right Wrong Thing": Officer Randy Spelling had always wanted to be a police officer, to follow in the footsteps of her brothers and her father. Not long after joining the force, she mistakenly shoots and kills Lakeisha Gibbs, a pregnant teenager. The community is outraged; Lakeisha's family is vocal and vicious in their attacks against Spelling. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and filled with remorse, Randy is desperate to apologize to the girl's family. Everyone, including the police chief, warns her against this, but the young police officer will not be dissuaded. Her attempt is catastrophic. Dr. Dot Myerhoff, police psychologist, plunges herself into the investigation despite orders from the police chief to back off. Not only does the psychologist's refusal to obey orders jeopardize her career, but her life as well, as she enlists unlikely allies and unconventional undercover work to expose the tangled net of Officer Spelling's.

Bonnie Macbird: "Art in the Blood, A Sherlock Holmes Adventure":

London, a snowy December, 1888. A disastrous Ripper investigation has left 35-year-old Sherlock Holmes in a deep depression and back on cocaine. The newly married Watson is summoned urgently to 221B to rouse his friend. Nothing works until the arrival of an intriguing encoded letter from a beautiful French singer, Mlle. Emmeline La Victoire. Her illegitimate son Emil (with the famous art collector and humanitarian Earl of Pellingham) has disappeared and she fears him kidnapped, and she herself has been accosted in the street.

As they travel to Paris to come to her aid, a larger picture is unveiled. This same untouchable Earl may well be behind the world's largest art theft.

Crime and Science Radio: Bones Tell the Tale: An Interview With Forensic Anthropologist and Best-selling Author Kathy Reichs

Bio:

Kathy Reichs's first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her other Temperance Brennan novels include Death du Jour, Deadly Décisions, Fatal Voyage, Grave Secrets, Bare Bones, Monday Mourning, Cross Bones, Break No Bones, Bones to Ashes, Devil Bones, 206 Bones, Spider Bones, Flash and Bones, Bones Are Forever, and Bones of the Lost, and the Temperance Brennan e-short, Bones In Her Pocket. In addition, Kathy co-authors the Virals young adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs. The best-selling titles are: Virals, Seizure, Code, and Exposure, along with two Virals e-novellas, Shift and Swipe. These books follow the adventures of Temperance Brennan's great niece, Tory Brennan. Dr. Reichs is also a producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels.

From teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as a forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerizing forensic thrillers. For years she consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina, and continues to do so for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec. Dr. Reichs has travelled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala. As part of her work at JPAC (Formerly CILHI) she aided in the identification of war dead from World War II, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Reichs also assisted with identifying remains found at ground zero of the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.