Suspense Radio

Beyond The Cover is hosted by John Raab and Jeff Ayers. This is where we bring you author interviews, book reviews, industry news and much more. 

MJ Arlidge: "Pop Goes The Weasel": A man’s body is found in an empty house. 

A gruesome memento of his murder is sent to his wife and children.

He is the first victim, and Detective Helen Grace knows he will not be the last. But why would a happily married man be this far from home in the dead of night?

The media call it Jack the Ripper in reverse: a serial killer preying on family men who lead hidden double lives.

Helen can sense the fury behind the murders. But what she cannot possibly predict is how volatile this killer is—or what is waiting for her at the end of the chase....

Beyond The Cover is hosted by John Raab and Jeff Ayers. This is where we bring you author interviews, book reviews, industry news and much more.

MJ Arlidge: "Pop Goes The Weasel": A man's body is found in an empty house.

A gruesome memento of his murder is sent to his wife and children.

He is the first victim, and Detective Helen Grace knows he will not be the last. But why would a happily married man be this far from home in the dead of night?

The media call it Jack the Ripper in reverse: a serial killer preying on family men who lead hidden double lives.

Helen can sense the fury behind the murders. But what she cannot possibly predict is how volatile this killer is—or what is waiting for her at the end of the chase....

Suspense Radio Inside Edition comes at you with three great authors. Tasha Alexander, Jax Miller and Joe Clifford.

Tasha Alexander: "The Adventuress": In this newest entry in the New York Times bestselling series by Tasha Alexander, Lady Emily Hargreaves travels to the south of France where an apparent suicide may be something far more sinister.

Jax Miller: "Freedom's Child": There's a lot people don't know about Freedom Oliver. What they don't know is that Freedom is not her real name. That she has spent the last eighteen years living under Witness Protection, after being arrested for her husband's murder. They don't know that she put her two children up for adoption, a decision that haunts her every day.

Joe Clifford: "Lamentation": n a frigid New Hampshire winter, Jay Porter is trying to eke out a living and maintain some semblance of a relationship with his former girlfriend and their two-year-old son. When he receives an urgent call that Chris, his drug-addicted brother, is being questioned by the sheriff about his missing junkie business partner, Jay feels obliged to come to his rescue. After Jay negotiates his brother's release from the county jail, Chris disappears into the night. As Jay begins to search for him, he is plunged into a cauldron of ugly lies and long-kept secrets that could tear apart his small hometown and threaten the lives of Jay and all those he holds dear. Powerful forces come into play that will stop at nothing until Chris is dead and the information he harbors is destroyed.

Mary Anna Evans with "Isolation":

Archaeologist Faye Longchamp-Mantooth has dug herself a deep hole and she can't make her way out of it. As she struggles to recover from a shattering personal loss, she sees that everyone she loves is trying to reach out to her. If only she could reach back. Instead she's out digging holes all over her home, the Florida island of Joyeuse.

In their old plantation home, Joe Wolf Mantooth is surrounded by family—Faye, the wife he loves; their toddler son he adores; and his father, who hasn't gotten around to telling him how long he's been out of prison or how he got there—yet Joe has never felt so helpless or alone.

Then a close friend at the local marina is brutally murdered, the first in a string of crimes against women that rocks Micco County. Joe, desperate to help Faye, realizes she is in danger from both her inner demons and someone who has breached the island's isolation. Local law and environmental officials say they want to help, but to Faye and Joe they feel more like invaders. A struggling Faye reaches back over a century into her family's history for clues. And all the while, danger snakes further into their lives, threatening the people they love, their cherished home, even the very ground—some of it poisoned—beneath their feet.

Turning the Tables; Emmy-Winning Investigative Reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan interrogates DP Lyle, MD

Bio D.P. Lyle:

DP Lyle, MD is the Macavity and Benjamin Franklin Silver Award winning and Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Scribe, Silver Falchion, and USA Best Book Award nominated author of many non-fiction books as well as numerous works of fiction, including the SAMANTHA CODY and DUB WALKER thriller series and the ROYAL PAINS media tie-in novels. His essay on Jules Verne's THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND appears in THRILLERS: 100 MUST READS and his short story "Even Steven" in ITW's anthology THRILLER 3: LOVE IS MURDER.

He has worked with many novelists and with the writers of popular television shows such 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.

The Story Blender with host Steven James tonight interviews author John Dixon. Steven is the author of several books including his award winning series The Bowers Files. Visit www.thestoryblender.com for more information on this show and Steven's work. 

John Dixon

Bestselling Author of Phoenix Island

Former Golden Gloves boxer, prison tutor, and middle school English teacher delves into how his life experiences helped shape the stories in his novels. He also shares about how his book Phoenix Island became the inspiration for the hit CBS show, Intelligence, and how the right perspective can change everything.

The Story Blender with host Steven James tonight interviews author John Dixon. Steven is the author of several books including his award winning series The Bowers Files. Visit www.thestoryblender.com for more information on this show and Steven's work.

John Dixon

Bestselling Author of Phoenix Island

Former Golden Gloves boxer, prison tutor, and middle school English teacher delves into how his life experiences helped shape the stories in his novels. He also shares about how his book Phoenix Island became the inspiration for the hit CBS show, Intelligence, and how the right perspective can change everything.

Beyond The Cover is back with sixty minutes of great author interviews. First we will have bestselling author Robert Dugoni and then Shane Gericke is back with a "Fury".

Robert Dugoni: "Her Final Breath": Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the sensational retrial of her sister's killer. Still scarred from that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that threatens to end her career, if not her life.

A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing young women in cheap motels in North Seattle and Tracy receives a menacing message suggesting the killer could be targeting her personally. With clues scarce and more victims dying, Tracy realizes the key to solving the murders may lie in a decade-old homicide investigation that others, including her captain, Johnny Nolasco, would prefer to keep buried. With the Cowboy on the hunt, can Tracy find the evidence to stop him, or will she become his next victim?

Shane Gericke: "Fury": The Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico washes a secret cache of Cold War doomsday weapons onto a Mexican beach: VX nerve gas bombs laced with anthrax, invented by the Nazis during World War II and perfected by the United States to use against Russia during the Cold War. The bombs soon fall into the wrong hands and create an unstoppable opponent—a cartel boss consumed with hate for America. Only one Chicago Police detective stands in the way of those bombs being exploded on American soil. Reeling from the recent murder of her husband, as well as allegations of police misconduct, Detective Superstition “Sue” Davis is thrown into an undercover assignment filled with treachery, assassination, double-crosses, and death.

Beyond The Cover is back with sixty minutes of great author interviews. First we will have bestselling author Robert Dugoni and then Shane Gericke is back with a "Fury".

Robert Dugoni: "Her Final Breath": Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the sensational retrial of her sister's killer. Still scarred from that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that threatens to end her career, if not her life.

A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing young women in cheap motels in North Seattle and Tracy receives a menacing message suggesting the killer could be targeting her personally. With clues scarce and more victims dying, Tracy realizes the key to solving the murders may lie in a decade-old homicide investigation that others, including her captain, Johnny Nolasco, would prefer to keep buried. With the Cowboy on the hunt, can Tracy find the evidence to stop him, or will she become his next victim?

Shane Gericke: "Fury": The Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico washes a secret cache of Cold War doomsday weapons onto a Mexican beach: VX nerve gas bombs laced with anthrax, invented by the Nazis during World War II and perfected by the United States to use against Russia during the Cold War. The bombs soon fall into the wrong hands and create an unstoppable opponent—a cartel boss consumed with hate for America. Only one Chicago Police detective stands in the way of those bombs being exploded on American soil. Reeling from the recent murder of her husband, as well as allegations of police misconduct, Detective Superstition "Sue" Davis is thrown into an undercover assignment filled with treachery, assassination, double-crosses, and death.

Suspense Radio is back with 90 minutes of fantastic author interviews. Three authors will be on today's show bringing you their unique style of writing.

Jeanne Ryan lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family. She is author of the thriller Nerve, which is being adapted into an upcoming Lionsgate feature film, and Charisma.She dreams of the day scientists develop a DNA alteration for flying. In the meantime, writing provides her wings.

Jax Miller was born and raised in New York but currently lives in the Irish countryside. In 2013 she was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger award for her first (unpublished) novel titled ‘The Assassin's Keeper' under the pseudonym Aine O Domhnaill. Jax is an avid lover of film and a self-proclaimed comic nerd.

David Bell worked a series of odd jobs—waiter, bartender, book store clerk, telemarketer—in a series of odd places—Shreveport, Louisiana; Savannah, Georgia; Washington D.C. After six years of that, he decided he had had enough of the real world and went to graduate school for creative writing. During graduate school, David wrote a few novels, which still survive on his hard drive but have not been published, and sold some short stories to journals large and small—Western Humanities Review, Backwards City Review, The Edge: Tales of Suspense. Some of these journals still exist even after publishing David's work.