Welcome to Author Provocateur with Josie Brown

Welcome to Author Provocateur with Josie Brown episodes:

• 03.01.2024

  Samantha M. Bailey - A FRIEND IN THE DARK

  A pending divorce. An estranged child. Eden Miller, a 45-year old realtor, finds her life crumbling, her heart broken, and her ego bruised— Until a chance glance at the Facebook page of her senior-year college crush has her sending him a...

  
• 07.25.2023

  Meredith Schorr - SOMEONE JUST LIKE YOU

  Meredith Schorr's SOMEONE JUST LIKE YOU is an extended love letter to rom-com readers. With heart, soul, and humor, Schorr plunges us into the lives of her at-odds main characters—Molly Blum and Jude Stark—at a critical point in their lives,...

  
• 03.25.2023

  Jane Healey - GOODNIGHT FROM PARIS

  The Year is 1939. In the historical novel, GOODNIGHT FROM PARIS, best selling author Jane Healey’s has a real-life heroine: Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, who, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband...

  
• 12.06.2022

  Jane Smiley - A DANGEROUS BUSINESS

  Adventurers whose gold rush fantasies have been crushed. A prim whorehouse madam whose strict rules are readily adhered to by her girls and patrons. Two hookers with hearts of steel.  In Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Jane Smiley’s historical mystery, A DANGEROUS BUSINESS,...

  
• 10.25.2022

  Michelle Cox - A SPYING EYE

  In the sixth book of Henrietta and Inspector Howard series by Michelle Cox, newlyweds Henrietta and Clive return to Europe in an attempt to resurrect their failed honeymoon. While in London, they are approached by their old friend, Inspector John...

  
• 09.06.2022

  Joy Jordan-Lake - A BEND OF LIGHT

  Best-selling author Joy Jordan-Lake's historical mystery, A BEND OF LIGHT, drops readers into a quiet coastal village five years after post–World War II America, where the past and present secrets collide. Amie Stilwell, a photo interpreter for an Allied unit in...

  
• 08.10.2022

  Rhys Bowen - WHERE THE SKY BEGINS

  In Rhys Bowen’s latest historical novel, WHERE THE SKY BEGINS, London during WWII is seen through the eyes of Josie Banks, and East Ender, a plain-spoken East Ender in a bad marriage, with no job, and one talent: making a...

  
• 06.21.2022

  Lee Goldberg - MOVIELAND

  In the Movieland — the fourth book in the  Eve Ronin thriller series — bestselling author Lee Goldberg’s plot, parallels  a true and recent ongoing investigation that concerns a shooter whose stalking ground is a national park in and around...

  
• 06.06.2022

  Meredith Schorr - AS SEEN ON TV

  Wouldn’t it be great if real life was just like television?  In debut romcom novelist Meredith Schorr’s AS SEEN ON TV, her main character, Adina Geller, takes that concept to the online magazine editor she’s trying to impress. He tells her...

  
• 05.19.2022

  Samantha M. Bailey - WATCH OUT FOR HER

  From USA TODAY and #1 national bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey comes this tense psychological thriller about a mother who must keep watch at all times if she wants to keep her family safe. Sarah Goldman, mother to six-year-old Jacob, is...

  
• 03.01.2022

  Lisa Barr - WOMAN ON FIRE

  In best-selling author Lisa Barr’s latest thrill, WOMAN ON FIRE, rising young journalist, Jules Roth, is given an unusual—and very secret—assignment: locate a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 75 years earlier: It is the final request of World-renowned...

  
• 02.08.2022

  Rea Frey - SECRETS OF OUR HOUSE

  Rea Frey’s latest novel, the compelling family saga, SECRETS OF OUR HOUSE  tells the story of Desi,  a wife and mother who thrives for perfection: both at work and at home— But then real life gets in the way. This story of...

  
• 01.18.2022

  Kaira Rouda - SOMEBODY’S HOME

  In USA Today best-selling author Kaira Rouda's latest domestic suspense novel, SOMEBODY'S HOME, the sale of house isn't a fresh start, but the beginning of a nightmare.
 Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. Although it’s on the wrong side of...

  
• 11.02.2021

  Yasmin Angoe - HER NAME IS KNIGHT

  In Yasmin Angoe contemporary debut thriller, HER NAME IS KNIGHT, an elite assassin heroine on a mission to topple a human trafficking ring and avenge her family. Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives...

  
• 10.26.2021

  Lee Goldberg - GATED PREY

  In GATED PREY, prolific thriller writer and television producer Lee Goldberg’s third novel in the Eve Ronin crime fiction novel series,  her supposedly simple 24-7 sting operation takes a violent and unexpected turn, leaving three intruders dead, and a body...

  
• 09.13.2021

  Hank Phillippi Ryan - HER PERFECT LIFE

  Hank Phillippi Ryan’s latest thriller, HER PERFECT LIFE, Lily Atwood, is an award-winning on-air television reporter with a seemingly perfect life. A job she loves that earns her incredible celebrity status, a seven-year-old loving daughter, Rowen, who goes to a...

  
• 08.12.2021

  Liza Nash Taylor - IN ALL GOOD FAITH

  In Liza Nash Taylor’s latest historical novel, IN ALL GOOD FAITH the lives of two women—May Marshall and Dorrit Sykes—intersect in the Great Depression: The era’s economic hardships turn both their lives turned upside down in heartbreaking ways. How they...

  
• 07.12.2021

  Kristin Contino - A HOUSE FULL OF WINDSOR

  In Kristin Contino’s contemporary novel, A House full of Windsor, divorced mother Debbie has such an obsession of the British Royal Family to the point that her hoarding of Royal knickknacks leads her grown children to go to desperate measures....

  
• 06.29.2021

  Tess Gerritsen, Gary Braver - CHOOSE ME

  In the novel, CHOOSE ME, prolific authors Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver have collaborated on a thriller that introduces Frankie Loomis, a tough-as-nails police detective whose investigation of a college student’s fatal plunge from a balcony is so finely layered...

  
• 02.12.2021

  Andrew Mayne - BLACK CORAL

  In Black Coral, master magician and prolific novelist Andrew Mayne’s second thriller of his Sloan McPherson series—Mayne’s take-no-prisoners detective, a diver with her police force’s newly formed Underwater Investigation Unit—stumbles across a submerged car in an alligator-infested canal.  It turns out...

  
• 02.01.2021

  Daniel Pyne - WATER MEMORY

  In prolific screenwriter Daniel Pyne’s latest thriller, WATER MEMORY—Black Ops specialist Aubrey Sentro may be one concussion away from death. But when pirates seize the cargo ship she’s on, she must decide whether to risk her life to save her...

  
• 01.11.2021

  Jason Pinter - A STRANGER AT THE DOOR

  There are tiger moms. And then there is Rachel Marin, Jason Pinter’s protagonist in the thriller series that bears her name. Pinter has given Rachel a very unique skill set: she has an uncanny ability to see clues that crime...

  
• 01.02.2021

  Lee Goldberg - BONE CANYON

  In BONE CANYON—prolific author and television producer-writer Lee Goldberg’s second book in his Eve Ronin series—charred bones found in the aftermath of a devastating Santa Monica Mountains fire embroils his protagonist in a conspiracy that puts her hard-fought position on...

  
• 12.11.2020

  Julie Valerie - THE PECULIAR FATE OF HOLLY BANKS

  In the second novel in the Village of Primm series—The Peculiar Fate of Holly Banks—novelist Julie Valerie turns up the heat in her satirical domestic comedy of a wife, mother, and aspiring filmmaker who clings to the pursuit of perfection,...

  
• 09.01.2020

  Robert Dugoni - THE LAST AGENT

  Josie and her guest, Robert Dugoni, discuss his latest thriller, The Last Agent—the second book in his Charles Jenkins series. The novel’s non-stop fast-paced plot revolves around the ultimate heist: the exfiltration of the undercover Russian Operative who once saved Jenkins’s...

  
• 04.03.2020

  Samantha M. Bailey - WOMAN ON THE EDGE

  In Samantha M. Bailey’s debut thriller WOMAN ON THE EDGE, a mother hands her infant daughter to a stranger before falling to her death in front of a subway train. That is, the woman given the child claims they've never...

  
• 01.28.2020

  Robert Dugoni - A COLD TRAIL

  In New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s latest thriller, A COLD TRAIL, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite returns home to Cedar Grove, where a brutal murder and her haunted past come to a crossroads. There her husband, lawyer Dan O’Leary, is drawn...

  
• 08.29.2019

  Liz Fenton, Lisa Steinke - THE TWO LILA BENNETTS

  Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke’s latest psychological thriller—The Two Lila Bennetts—has been lauded by Authorlink as an imaginative and unpredictable story of modern life, the choices we make and their consequences.” BookTrib calls it  a “‘whose-doing-it’ masterpiece.” And Publisher’s Weekly declares: "its...

  
• 04.29.2019

  Debra Webb - THE SECRETS WE BURY

  Today's guest is the prolific suspense novelist Debra Webb, a USA-Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author with over one hundred and fifty books to her name. Debra’s latest novel, THE SECRETS WE BURY, is the first in a new romantic suspense...

  
• 02.25.2019

  Deborah Coonts - LUCKY CE SOIR

  In the 10th novel in the Deborah Coonts’ series, LUCKY CE SOIR, Coont’s heroine, a fixer at the mythical and very posh Vegas Strip hotel, the Babylon, puts her business life on hold in order to meet the parents of...

  
• 12.28.2018

  James Rollins - CRUCIBLE

  James Rollins has written enough bestselling novels to fill a tall bookcase. In most of them, a historical event, or artifact, is the catalyst for a modern-day catastrophe. Sometimes Rollins will find the perfect plot concept from reading an article....

  
• 11.30.2018

  David Baldacci - LONG ROAD TO MERCY

  According to internationally bestselling author David Baldacci, when you’ve written as many books as he has—ten series, or a total of thirty books, and counting; and another twelve stand-alone novels—there is one way to keep his writing razor-sharp: “Start from...

  
• 11.01.2018

  Lee Child - PAST TENSE

  The iconic loner anti-hero, Jack Reacher, has made thriller writer Lee Child an internationally renowned author. Child’s debut novel, Killing Floor—the first of 23 Reach books—won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery. The 9th novel, THE ENEMY,...

  
• 09.17.2018

  Kristan Higgins - GOOD LUCK WITH THAT

  New York Times best-selling author Kristan Higgins’ eighteenth novel, GOOD LUCK WITH THAT, follows three women—best pals Emerson, Marley, and Georgia—whose lifetime battles with obesity were the bonds that brought them together. The death of one provides the catalyst for...

  
• 09.17.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Kristan Higgins

  New York Times best-selling author Kristan Higgins’ eighteenth novel, GOOD LUCK WITH THAT, follows three women—best pals Emerson, Marley, and Georgia—whose lifetime battles with obesity were the bonds that brought them together. The death of one provides the catalyst for...

  
• 08.13.2018

  Hank Phillippi Ryan - TRUST ME

  If you’re a novelist, the best way to make lemonade from a lemon of a non-fiction book deal gone awry is to repurpose it into a thriller that garners numerous enthusiastic reviews and a slot several best-sellers’ lists. With her latest...

  
• 08.13.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Hank Phillippi Ryan

  If you’re a novelist, the best way to make lemonade from a lemon of a non-fiction book deal gone awry is to repurpose it into a thriller that garners numerous enthusiastic reviews and a slot several best-sellers’ lists. With her latest...

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Violet Howe

  Violet's experience in the wedding planning industry was her inspiration for a heroine who creates  Happily Ever Afters for brides and the grooms who love them. She also writes romantic suspense—with a paranormal twist. But Violet’s passion: research. Violet explains how research adds...

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: TM Cromer

  This Romantic Suspense and Sweet Contemporary Romance author truly has a split personality—and it shows in the depth and breadth of her work. I talked to her about the joy of writing in multiple genres, and coming from a large...

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Tina DeSalvo

  Tina DeSalvo writes about and believes in Happily Ever Afters. She writes them beautifully, too—perhaps because of her keen observations of others, honed from her many years as a journalist. We have a wonderful discussion of her past, her journey...

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Tara Taylor Quinn

  Tara Taylor Quinn has penned 75 novels—and counting! She is a go-to read for any Harlequin SuperRomance reader. In her WHERE SECRETS ARE SAFE series, the plots revolve around  members or supporters of the Lemonade Stand Women’s Shelter. Their second chances are true happily...

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Susan Carlisle

  Best-selling author Susan Carlisle finds the inspiration for her plots in the funniest places—and it shows. Having traveled to 49 of 50 states, she has a lot of wonderful material.We talk about plots, travel, and our home state of Georgia.

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Shirley Hailstock

  Shirley Hailstock is a best-selling, award-winning novelist with over 30 books to her name. In fact, her novel, Legacy, is listed as one of the 100 Greatest Romance Novels of the 20th Century. Her series include the 6-novel Capitol Chronicles Romantic Suspense series...

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Sandy Parks

  Today my guest is novelist Sandy Parks is renowned for her adventure thrillers which often with an aviation theme. In Sandy’s HAWKER INCORPORATION series, her heroine, military test pilot Amelia “Jet” Walkzinski, specialize in the difficult, elusive, and highly profitable...

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Sabrina York

  Award-winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Sabrina York, is known for her steamy romances. She writes about a fantasy you may have, be it hot SEALs, steamy cowboys, kilted warriors and naughty dukes. And her heroes find their match in her...

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Rose Lerner

  Rose Lerner writes Regency Romances and Historical romances based in the Revolutionary War period. The steely determination of her heroes and heroines to make their way in the world is what sets her 4-novel Lively St. Lemeston series apart from other regencies. But...

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Nancy Herkness

  For this author, how to marry a billionaire is easy. Offer him something priceless: a heart of gold. She also discusses how growing up in West Virginia gave her the inspiration for her Horse Whispererseries.

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Nan Dixon

  The love of travel and family is what inspired Nan Dixon's heartfelt contemporary romance series, Fitzgerald House, whose heroines are loosely based on her sisters. Nan and I talk about how travel inspires her plots.

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Mary Leo

  If you love Magical Romances, Cowboy Romances, and Cozy Mysteries, then Mary Leo is the read for you! I talked to Mary—a Chicago gal—how she ended up in cowboy country, and what sang to her about it. We'll also talk...

  
• 04.20.2018

  Author Provocateur Interviews: Marilyn Baron

  The idea for Marilyn's (thus far) four-novel Crystal Psychic series came to her when she sat on a long-distance flight. As for Marilyn's contemporary romantic suspense novels, readers are enthralled by their historical angles and faraway locales. In fact, you'll hear how...