mystery

"The Third Bullet" by Stephen Hunter

Joe Donahue — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:45:00 +0000

Stephen Hunter is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for The Washington Post and best-selling novelist.

His new novel, The Third Bullet, has his recurring hero, Bob Lee Swagger, question details of what happened in shooting death of JFK.

Hunter has written 18 novels — eight of them featuring Swagger, a former Marine sniper.

"The Wrath of Angels: A Charlie Parker Thriller" by John Connolly

Joe Donahue — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:35:00 +0000

John Connolly is best known for his bestselling series starring Maine private detective Charlie Parker. They are literate, hardboiled novels that dabble increasingly in the supernatural.

His latest novel is The Wrath of Angels , the just-published 11th book in the Parker series. It deals with a plane crash in the depths of the Maine woods. What the wreckage conceals is more important than money. It is power.

The Book Show #1279 - Michael Connelly

Joe Donahue — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:06:00 +0000

Michael Connelly started his career as a newspaper reporter, eventually working as a police and crime reporter for The Los Angeles Times. While there, he covered the 1992 riots – a time and place to which he returns in the book, The Black Box, which stars LAPD detective, Harry Bosch.

"Kinsey and Me: Stories" by Sue Grafton

Joe Donahue — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:35:00 +0000

In 1982 years ago, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone - the main character in her best-selling alphabet mystery series. In her new book, Kinsey and Me: Stories Grafton gives readers stories that reveal Kinsey’s origins and Sue’s past.

"Orders from Berlin" and Hobbit talk with Simon Tolkien

Joe Donahue — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:35:00 +0000

"Two Graves" by Preston Douglas and Lincoln Child

Joe Donahue — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:40:00 +0000

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are the coauthors of the famed Pendergast series, including the first two books in the Helen Trilogy, Fever Dream and Cold Vengeance. Preston and Child are also the authors of the Gideon Crew series. Their books Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number-one box office hit movie.

The Book Show #1273 - Archer Mayor

Joe Donahue — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:06:00 +0000

Archer Mayor is the author of the highly acclaimed, Vermont-based series featuring detective Joe Gunther, which the Chicago Tribune describes as "the best police procedurals being written in America." In the new book, Paradise CityPeter G. Pollak back to the show and speak with him about his new book, Making the Grade.

"Death and Transfiguration"

Joe Donahue — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:48:47 +0000

A graduate of Yale, Gerald Elias has been a Boston Symphony violinist, Associate Concertmaster of the Utah Symphony, adjunct professor of music at the University of Utah, first violinist of the Abramyan String Quartet, and Music Director of the Vivaldi Candlelight concert series. He is also the author of Devil’s Trill and Danse Macabre.