Melissa Westemeier

Amy Patricia Meade’s new series dishes up a slice of Golden Age mystery layered with Golden Age Hollywood glamour and drama. The cherry on top? Each book features behind-the-scenes subplots centered around the production of Alfred Hitchcock’s films! The result is a deliciously twisty story packed with juicy gossip and intrigue! Meade shares how her grandfather inspired her to write this series, and she educates me about the important role script supervisors played in movie p

Bestselling author of psychological thrillers, Elle Marr shares how her new release, She Dies in the End, was born when her baby woke her up one night. She schools me about the wild and unregulated world of body brokers and how her research presented endless opportunities for a crime story. She also discusses what draws her into writing psychological thrillers, her struggle to balance writing as a mom with young children, and how she works with her editor of 7 books! Marr’s i

Welsh writer Jennifer Holdich’s second novel is as darkly funny as her first. Her love of Roald Dahl, specifically his children’s book The Twits, inspired Mr. & Mrs. Dixon Hide a Body. Holdich talks about her second novel angst, what plagued her writing process, and what kept her writing about a couple of horrible people trapped in a loveless marriage committed to doing horrible things to each other. She stitches together a seamstress, a sublimely evil prank, and a killer end

In the neighborhood, anyway, NOT in the kitchen! G.P. Gottlieb’s newest Whipped and Sipped Mystery features a case of arson around the corner from the Whipped and Sipped Cafe during COVID, and then there’s a discovery of a body in the ashes AND secret hideaway.

Nina Simon’s new mystery is all about extremes and opposites. She shares the real-life sister trip she took that inspired My Sister Is Going to Kill Me and dishes about the Thors she’s met on wilderness adventures

Dervla McTiernan reveals what 80’s movie prompted her to write a book that opens with a mysterious package with contents specially curated to destroy someone’s life.