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.

Mark Thielman’s debut novel The Devil’s Kitchen includes nearly everything but the kitchen sink!

Ever wonder what life was really like during the American Revolution? Imagine a world of spies, divided loyalties, and secret messages—award-winning author Mally Becker changed everything I thought I knew about history. Rebecca Parcell is a young widow accused of betraying her husband, and General Washington asks her to hunt secrets she’s unsure she can find. Becker takes us into the chaos of divided loyalties, spies, and deadly missions. There’s real history in her mysteries

The Marlow Murder Club needs no introduction to mystery fans, and whilst filming Murder on the Marlow Belle for PBS Masterpiece Mystery is under way, Robert Thorogood’s fifth title in the series, The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts is landing on a bookshelf near you!

Former archaeology student and lifetime history buff Connie Berry writes a range of contemporary historic mysteries (Contemporary-historic, how’s that for an oxymoron?) set in various time periods, and sometimes she even blends the eras together. In our interview she digs into the backstory of her protagonist in the Kate Hamilton Mystery Series. Kate Hamilton’s my favorite type of amateur sleuth and I’m addicted to these mysteries. Kate’s smart, capable, doesn’t meddle too m

Anthropologist and mystery fan Michelle L. Cullen draws from personal experience moving her mother into a patio home to create her amateur sleuth, Harry Lancaster. Harry’s recovery from a fractured hip is made more interesting as he spies on neighbors. Assisted by his caregiver, Emma Stockton, Harry does more than just PT when a neighbor urgently phones Harry for help and they find her dead on her kitchen floor. Michelle talks about her research for this new series, what make