Interviews with today's leading (and emerging) crime writers of color with host Robert Justice.
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The Crime Writers of Color podcast is a breath of fresh air for crime and mystery enthusiasts seeking more diversity in their reading. In a genre often dominated by male white authors, this podcast amplifies the voices of writers from diverse backgrounds, while prioritizing authenticity and entertainment value. Hosted by the talented broadcaster and author Robert Justice, this podcast stands out for its engaging interviews with crime writers and authors, making it a must-listen for fans of the genre.
One of the best aspects of The Crime Writers of Color podcast is its commitment to showcasing a wide range of voices. By featuring authors from different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences, listeners are introduced to new perspectives that enrich their understanding of crime and mystery literature. The social commentary embedded in these diverse stories is seamlessly integrated into the plot, never detracting from the thrilling narrative. This combination of engaging storytelling and thought-provoking social commentary creates a unique listening experience that keeps audiences hooked.
Moreover, Robert Justice's interview style is commendable. He skillfully navigates each conversation with his guests, asking insightful questions that delve into their works and extract interesting notes and insights. His ability to dig deep into the writing process ensures that listeners gain valuable behind-the-scenes knowledge about these exceptional authors. Justice's genuine enthusiasm for crime literature shines through his interviews, making them all the more captivating to listen to.
While The Crime Writers of Color podcast excels in many ways, there may be some downsides to consider. One potential drawback could be the limited availability or representation of certain sub-genres within crime and mystery fiction. Depending on personal preferences, some listeners may find themselves longing for more variety within these genres. However, it is important to note that the podcast strives to showcase as many diverse voices as possible within its scope.
In conclusion, The Crime Writers of Color podcast fills a void in the crime and mystery genre by highlighting underrepresented voices while delivering entertaining content reminiscent of acclaimed authors like Agatha Christie, Michael Connelly, and Tana French. Host Robert Justice's exceptional interviewing skills and genuine passion for the subject matter make this podcast a standout in the literary podcast landscape. Whether you are an avid reader or a writer seeking inspiration, The Crime Writers of Color offers an invaluable platform to discover new authors and gain insight into the craft of crime writing.
ttica Locke, author of the Highway 59 series is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Attica's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writer's of Color Website
Amina Akhtar, author of Almost Surely Dead is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Amina's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writer's of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Danielle Arceneaux, author of Glory Be is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Danielle's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Erin E. Adams, author of Jackal is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Erin's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Shelly Ellis, author of over a dozen novels including The Three Mrs. Greys Series and Not So Perfect Strangers, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Shelly's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Alessandra Harris, author of the Last Place Seen, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Alessandra Harris doesn't shy away from controversial topics, and writes books that reflect the diversity of her world. In addition to writing fiction, Alessandra is an advocate for mental health and racial justice. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and four children. Her debut novel, Blaming the Wind, was published by Red Adept Publishing in 2016, followed by Everything She Lost in 2018, and Last Place Seen in 2022. Her first non-fiction title, In the Shadow of Freedom: A Catholic Call for Justice, will be released with Orbis Book in 2024. Links Alessandra's Website Robert Justice's Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Cheryl Head, author of the Time's Undoing, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Cheryl's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Esme Addison, author of the Enchanted Bay Mysteries, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Esme's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Robert Justice's Website
Sulari Gentill, author of The Woman in the Library, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Sulari's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website
Robert Justice interviews Delia C. Pitts, author of the Ross Agency Mystery series. Born and raised in Chicago, Delia graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor's degree in history. After working as a journalist, she earned a Ph.D. in African history from the University of Chicago. She is a former university administrator and U.S. diplomat. Murder My Past is the fifth book in her contemporary noir mystery series. The next entry, Murder Take Two, will be published in 2022. Her short story, “The Killer,” was published in The Chicago Quarterly Review, #31. It was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021. Another story, “A Deadly First,” was published in the 2020 holiday crime anthology, Festive Mayhem. Her short story, “Talladega 1925,” was published in The Chicago Quarterly Review, #33. She is an active member of Sisters in Crime and Crime Writers of Color. Her next novel, featuring small town African American private investigator Vandy Myrick, will be published by Minotaur in 2024. Delia and her husband live in central New Jersey and have twin sons living in Texas.
Gary Phillips, author of almost twenty novels, including Matthew Henson and The Ice Temple of Harlem and One-Shot Harry, is interviewed by Robert Justice.
Vaseem Khan, author of the Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation and Malabar House series, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Vaseem's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website
CWoC co-founders Kellye Garrett, author of Like a Sister and Gigi Pandian, author of Under Lock & Skeleton Key return to discuss their new books with Robert Justice. Links Kellye's Website Gigi's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Wanda Morris, author of All Her Little Secrets, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Wanda's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Yasmin Angoe—author of HER NAME IS KNIGHT—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Yasmin's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Aaron Philip Clark—author of Under Color of Law—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Aaron's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Rachel Howzell Hall—author of These Toxic Things—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Rachel's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website
Robert Justice—author of THEY CAN'T TAKE YOUR NAME—is interviewed by a special guest host. Links Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website
Anthology editors Abby Vandiver, Marla Bradeen, Steph Cha and Alafair Burke are interviewed by Robert Justice. Carolyn Wilkins and Alex Segura read from their amazing short stories. Links Midnight Hour: A Chilling Anthology of Crime Fiction from 20 Authors of Color Festive Mayhem 2: Seven Holiday Culinary Cozy Mysteries The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021 Robert Justice's Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Patricia Raybon—author of ALL THAT IS SECRET—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Patricia Raybon is an award-winning author and novelist who writes at the daring intersection of faith and race. Her books include My First White Friend, winner of the Christopher Award, I Told the Mountain to Move, a prayer memoir about her struggle to learn to pray, that was a Christianity Today Book of the Year finalist, and Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace, coauthored with her younger daughter Alana Raybon. Patricia's essays on faith and race have been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, Guideposts, Christianity Today, and other national publications and blogs. Her first fiction is a 1920s murder mystery series about a young Black theologian—a fan of Sherlock Holmes—solving crime and murder in Colorado's dangerous era of the Ku Klux Klan. Its debut title, All That Is Secret, is set to release Oct. 5, 2021, from Tyndale House. Parade Magazine picked All That Is Secret among its Fall 2021 “Mysteries We Love.” Patricia's essays on faith and race have been published in the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, USA Weekend, Country Living Magazine, Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post, Guideposts, In Touch Magazine (In Touch Ministries), Christianity Today, popular blogs including the Washington Post's “Acts of Faith” and aired on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. A regular contributor at Our Daily Bread and the (in)courage community at DaySpring, she also teaches and coaches at writing conferences and workshops nationwide. A lifelong Colorado resident, Patricia lives with her husband Dan, a retired educator. They have two grown daughters, a son-in-law, five grandchildren and a “grand dog” Max. Links Patricia's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Nadine Matheson—author of The Jigsaw Man—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Nadine's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Patricia Sargeant—author of Murder by Page One—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Patricia Sargeant's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Webpage Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Tracy Clark—author of the Cass Raines Chicago Mysteries—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Tracy Clark's Website Robert Justice's Website CrimeWritersofColor.com Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Aya de Leon—author of A Spy in the Struggle—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Aya de Leon's Website Robert Justice's Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Gar Anthony Haywood—author of In Things Unseen—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Gar Anthony Haywood’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Alyssa Cole—author of When No One Is Watching—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Alyssa Cole’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Alexia Gordon—physician by day, award winning #ownvoices crime novelist by night—is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Alexia Gordon’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Thriller author, Rachel Howzell-Hall, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Rachel Howzell-Hall’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Suspence author, Bianca Sloane, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Bianca Sloane is the author of the suspense novels What You Don’t Know, Sweet Little Lies, Every Breath You Take and Killing Me Softly (previously published as Live and Let Die), chosen as “Thriller of the Month” (May 2013) by e-thriller.com and a “2013 Top Read” by OOSA Online Book Club. When she’s not writing, she’s watching Bravo TV, Investigation Discovery, reading, or cooking. Sloane resides in Chicago. Links Bianca Sloane’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website
E. A. Aymar (AKA—E. A. Barres), author of They’re Gone, is interviewed by Robert Justice. His past thrillers include thriller, The Unrepentant, was published in 2019, the novels-in-stories The Swamp Killers and The Night of the Flood (in which he served as co-editor and contributor). He has a monthly column in the Washington Independent Review of Books, is a former member of the national board of the International Thriller Writers and, for years, was the managing editor of The Thrill Begins, an online resource for debut and aspiring writers. He is also an active member of Crime Writers of Color, the Mystery Writers of America and SinC. He also runs the Noir at the Bar series for Washington, D.C., and has hosted and spoken at a variety of crime fiction, writing, and publishing events Links Website for E. A. Aymar Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color
David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of Winter Counts , is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Website Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Tori Eldridge, author of the Lily Wong thriller-mystery series , is interviewed by Robert Justice. Tori Eldridge is the bestselling author of The Ninja’s Blade and The Ninja Daughter (Lily Wong series), nominated for the Anthony, Lefty, and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel and named one of the “Best Mystery Books of the Year” by The South Florida Sun Sentinel and awarded 2019 Thriller Book of the Year by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. Links Tori Eldridge’s Website Robert Justice’s Website CrimeWritersofColor.com
S. A. Cosby, author Blacktop Wasteland, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links S. A. Cosby’s Books Robert Justice’s Website Crime Writers of Color Website
Maxine Mei-Fung Chung, author The Eighth Girl, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Maxine is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and training psychotherapist. She lectures on trauma, gender and sexuality, clinical dissociation, and attachment theory at The Bowlby Centre and was awarded the Jafar Kareem Bursary for her work supporting people from ethnic minorities experiencing isolation and mental health problems. Originally trained in the arts, she previously worked as a creative director for ten years at Condé Nast, The Sunday Times, and The Times (London). The Eighth Girl, is her debut novel, published earlier this year in the U.S. with William Morrow and in the U.K. March 2021, with Pushkin Vertigo, Pushkin Press. The Eighth Girl has also been optioned for film by Netflix (Aggregate) with Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan. Links Maxine Mei-Fung Chung’s Website & Books Robert Justice’s Books Subscribe to the Crime Writers of Color Podcast: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play iHeartRadio Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Kim Johnson, author This is My America, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Kim held leadership positions in social justice organizations as a teen and in college. She’s now a college administrator who maintains civic engagement throughout the community while also mentoring Black student activists and leaders. She is also the graduate advisor and member of an historically Black sorority. This Is My America is her debut novel and explores racial injustice against innocent Black men who are criminally sentenced and the families left behind to pick up the pieces. She holds degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Maryland, College Park. Links Kim Johnson’s Website & Books Read her essay “We Are Done Dying—Why Generational Black Trauma Must End Now” CrimeWritersofColor.com Robert Justice’s Website
Nikki Dolson, author Love and Other Criminal Behavior, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Nikki Dolson is a writer primarily of short fiction, which has been published in places like Shotgun Honey, Tough, Thuglit, & Bartleby Snopes. She’s also written a novel-ish thing, ALL THINGS VIOLENT, in addition to her short story collection, LOVE AND OTHER CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR. Links Nikki Dolson’s Website & Books CrimeWritersofColor.com Robert Justice’s Website Podcast Music Provided by Chris Lang Jazz
Faye Snowden, author of A Killing Fire, is interviewed by Robert Justice. FayeSnowden.com CrimeWritersofColor.com
J. L. Brown, author of the Jade Harrington mystery novels, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Also, Julie settles once and for all--Who's better? Michael Jackson or Prince? Jordan or Lebron? JLBrownAuthor.com CrimeWritersofColor.com
Alex Segura, acclaimed author of novels, comic books and podcasts, is interviewed by Robert Justice. AlexSegura.com CrimeWritersofColor.com
John Vercher, author Three Fifths, is interviewed by Robert Justice. John Vercher’s Website Purchase Three-Fifths CrimeWritersofColor.com
Walter Mosley, legendary author of almost sixty books and novels, including “Trouble is What I Do”--co-founder of Crime Writers of Color--is interviewed by Robert Justice. WalterMosley.com CrimeWritersofColor.com
Gigi Pandian, author of the Accidental Alchemist and Jaya Jones series and co-founder of Crime Writers of Color, is interviewed by Robert Justice. GigiPandian.com CrimeWritersofColor.com
Kellye Garrett, author of The Detective by Day Mysteries and co-founder of the Crime Writers of Color, is interviewed by Robert Justice. Links Kellye's Website Kellye's Books Robert Justice's Books CrimeWritersofColor.com
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