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Mark Greaney - Mission Critical

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2019 33:24


Mark Greaney co-wrote several Jack Ryan books with Tom Clancy, and several of them solo after Mr. Clancy passed away. But Mark started out his writing career with The Gray Man, the story of a burned CIA operative being hunted down by his former employer. We've talked about every entry into the series so far, and today we talk about the latest one, Mission Critical, which is published by Berkley.  For listeners in the Memphis area, Mark Greaney will be at the bookstore novel located at 387 Perkins Extended on Saturday, February 23 at 2:00 p.m. to sign mission Critical. More information is available at novelmemphis.com/event.

Stephen Markley - Ohio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2018 31:37


Reed Farrell Coleman - Robert B Parker's Colorblind

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2018 40:01


Jeremy Finley - The Darkest Time of Night

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2018 40:49


Bonus - Beatriz Williams - The Summer Wives

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2018 61:19


Debby Schriver - Whispering in the Daylight

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2018 40:34


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Bonus - Caleb Johnson - Treeborne

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2018 45:20


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Bonus - Hannah Pittard - Visible Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2018 51:59


Bonus -Ace Atkins - Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2018 28:30


Bonus - William Boyle - The Lonely Witness

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2018 28:47


Bonus - Leah Stewart - What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2018 36:22


Bonus - Michael Kardos - Bluff

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2018 29:01


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Bonus - Eric Barnes - The City Where We Once Lived

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2018 28:53


Bonus - Ariel Lawhon - I Was Anastasia

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 33:14


Bonus - Michael Farris Smith - The Fighter

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2018 37:35


Bonus - Elizabeth Crook - The Which Way Tree

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2018 39:02


K. J. Howe - The Freedom Broker

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2018 40:41


Mark Greaney - Agent in Place

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2018 31:05


Bonus - John Grisham - The Rooster Bar

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2017 31:02


Bonus - Daren Wang - The Hidden Light of Northern Fires

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2017 30:09


Bonus - Reed Farrel Coleman - Robert B. Parker's The Hangman's Sonnet

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2017 40:11


Bonus - Ladee Hubbard - The Talented Ribkins

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2017 33:42


Bonus - Ace Atkins - The Fallen

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2017 30:22


Bonus - Vickie Fee - One Fete in the Grave

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2017 29:02


Vickie Fee was a long-time journalist in western Tennessee but now calls the Upper Peninsula of Michigan home. To help with home sickness, she began writing the Liv and Di in Dixie Mystery series, and today we'll be talking about the third installment, One Fete in The Grave, which is published by Kensington.

Bonus -John Grisham.

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2017 19:50


This is a cross post from Chapter16.org. Enjoy.

Bonus - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich - The Fact of a Body

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2017 43:10


      Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo, and a Rona Jaffe Award. Also, she teaches at Grub Street and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In this episode, we will talk about her book, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir.

Bonus - Julie Buntin - Marlena

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2017 37:25


Julie Buntin is the director of writing programs at Catapult and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, and Slate among others. Today we'll be discussing her debut novel, Marlena. It's the story of a friendship between two teenage girls in rural Michigan and the decades long effects that it has on one of them.

Bonus - Holly Tucker - City of Light, City of Poison

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2017 37:02


Dr. Holly Tucker is a professor at Vanderbilt University in Italian and French, as well in their medical school's Center for Biomedical Ethics & Society. Dr. Tucker is author of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine & Murder in the Scientific Revolution and Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth & the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France. Today we will be talking about her most recent book, City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris, which is published by W.W. Norton. 

Bonus - CJ Box - Vicious Circle

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2017 29:01


  C.J. Box won the Edgar Award for best novel for Blue Heaven in 2008, but he is best known for his long-running and award-winning series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. The series began in 2001 with Open Season and today, we'll talk about the seventeenth installment, Vicious Circle.

Bonus - Greg Iles - Mississippi Blood

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2017 30:44


Greg Iles is of course one of the biggest thriller writers in America, having written eighteen books which routinely hit the best- sellers lists. We last spoke with Greg about the first installment of his Natchez Burning trilogy about Mayor Penn Cage fighting against a Klan splinter group called the Double Eagles. We missed chatting with him about the second part, The Bone Tree, but he stopped back by to chat about wrapping it up with book three, Mississippi Blood.

Bonus - Michael Farris Smith - Desperation Road

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2017 38:06


Mississippi native Michael Farris Smith's first book was the novella, The Hands of Strangers. In 2013 he broke out with the near future ecological dystopian novel, Rivers, which won the 2014 Mississippi Author Award. Today we talk about his new novel, Desperation Road, which is published by Lee Boudreaux books.

Bonus - Reed Farrel Coleman - What You Break

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2017 30:06


Reed Farrel Coleman is probably best known for his long-running Moe Prager series which he ended in 2014 after nine installments. He has also carried on Robert B. Parker's Jessie Stone series, with his fourth contribution coming out in September 2017. But today we'll be talking about his new series featuring retired long island beat cop, Gus Murphy. The first book in the series Where It Hurts was published in 2016 and is a finalist for the 2017 Edgar Award for best novel. The second title has just been published by G.P. Putnam Sons, and it's called What You Break.

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Bonus - Chanell Benz

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2017 29:01


  (photo: Christine Jean Chambers) Chanelle Benz's short stories have appeared in Guernica, Granta.com,  The American Reader, and The Cupboard, and she has received an O. Henry Prize. In this edition of Book Talk, we will be talking about her debut collection of stories, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, which is published by Ecco/Harper Collins.

Bonus - Mark Greaney - Gunmetal Gray

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2017 39:48


  Mark Greaney back on the program today. Mark is a New York Best Times bestselling author of international thrills. He co-authored several Jack Ryan novels with Tom Clancy, and has recently concluded his involvement with the series, with his last solo effort being True Faith and Allegiance. Mark is also the author of the Gray Man series starring for CIA goon Court Gentry. Today, we'll talk about book six in that series, Gun Metal Gray. Download here.

Bonus - Alexander Weinstein - Children of the New World

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2016 58:17


      Alexander Weinstein's fiction has appeared in Notre-Dame Review, Pleiades,Southern Indiana Review, and other journals. His stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and appear in the anthologies 2013 New Stories from the Midwest, and the 2014 & 2015 Lascaux Prize Stories. Today we'll be talking about his debut collection, Children of the New World, which is published by Picador.

Podcast - Beth Macy - Truevine

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2016 35:53


Beth Macy is a journalist having written for The Roanoke Times and has contributed essays to The New York Times.  She's written two best-selling books of non-fiction. The first was Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local -- and Helped Save an American Town, and today we'll be talking about Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South.

Podcast - Beverly Lowry - Who Killed These Girls

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2016 34:21


Beverly Lowry is a respected novelist and writer of non-fiction. In addition to biographies of Harriet Tubman and Madame C.J. Walker, her book Crossed Over: A Monster, A Memoir dealt with the unsolved crime of her son's death by a hit and run driver and her getting to know Karla Faye Tucker, the convicted murderer who became the first woman executed in Texas in over 100 years. Today we'll be talking about her new book, Who Killed These Girls?, her investigation to the still unresolved murders of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop in Austin Texas in December of 1991.

Bonus - Robert Olen Butler

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2016 33:00


Robert Olen Butler back to the program today. Bob is one of America's most acclaimed writers of fiction, having not only won many literary honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, but he also had prize for short fiction named in his honor, which was award five times in the early 2000s. Early in his writing career, Butler wrote fiction about the Vietnam conflict from several different angles, and in his latest novel, Perfume River, he looks about how this war, and even wars before and since, have influenced the Quinlan family.

Bonus - Candice Millard - Hero of the Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2016 38:47


    Candice Millard is a former writer and editor for National Geographic Magazine. Her first book The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey was published in 2005. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of A President, which won an Edgar for best fact crime book, followed in 2011. Doubleday has recently published her third book, Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill, which has already spent several weeks in the top ten of the New York Times Best Sellers list.

Bonus - Thomas Mullen

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2016 44:14


  Thomas Mullen has published four novels, The Last Town on Earth, which won the James Fenimore Cooper prize, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, The Revisionists, and Atria has recently published his latest, Darktown, set in the dawning of the Civil Rights era in Atlanta. Eight African-American men are the first hired onto the police force, and two of them Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith are tested as they investigate a black woman's murder, complicated by the fact she was seen last with a disgraced, white ex-cop who still has friends on the force.      

Bonus - Nathan Hill

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2016 34:45


Nathan Hill has worked as a journalist and is currently on leave from his job as an associate professor of creative writing. He's just published his debut novel The Nix to much critical acclaim, including starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus. And it was recently announced that Meryl Streep and J.J. Abrams plan on adapting The Nix for television.

Bonus - Kerri Maniscalco - Stalking Jack the Ripper

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2016 29:04


Kerri Maniscalco is a debut novelist who has the honor of being the first author published by James Patterson's new young adult imprint called Jimmy Patterson Books and is distributed by Little, Brown. Stalking Jack the Ripper is the story of a 17-year-old girl named Audrey Rose Wadsworth who is fascinated by the Jack the Ripper case and is then terrified to learn that Jack might be closer to her than she suspects. Also, Stalking Jack the Ripper debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list for young adult hardcover! Congratulations Kerri!

Bonus - Jason Miller - Red Dog

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2016 43:59


Jason Miller is a noted Twitter funny person and contributor to the RiffTrax movie satire series. Jason first appeared on Book Talk in 2015 to talk about the first book in his Slim in Little Egypt mystery series, Down Don't Bother Me. 2016 brings book two in the series set in southern Illinois coal country, Red Dog.

Bonus - Donald Ray Pollock - The Heavenly Table

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2016 32:31


Donald Ray Pollock came to writing later in life after having worked 30+ years in a paper mill in central Ohio. His first published book was a collection of short stories called Knockemstiff, followed by the novel, The Devil All the Time. 2016 sees the release of his second novel, The Heavenly Table, which is published by Doubleday.

Bonus - Brad Taylor - Ghosts of War

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2016 28:58


Brad Taylor retired as lieutenant colonel from the United States Army after over 20 years of service, including time in what is popularly known as Delta Force. He then began writing thrillers about a shadowy special forces unit called The Taskforce, starring operator Pike Logan. The first book in the series was One Rough Man, and now in the summer of 2016, we have the tenth book in the series, Ghosts of War, which is published by Dutton.  

Bonus - Ace Atkins - The Innocents

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2016 28:35


Ace Atkins used to be a crime reporter down in Tampa, Florida, but turned to the world of fiction with his New Orleans set Nick Travers series. He then wrote four critically acclaimed historical novels based on true crimes. His currently writing two series. One is continuing the Spenser series for the Robert B. Parker estate, and his own Quinn Colson series, set in northern Mississippi, about an Army Ranger who retires back to his hometown and takes over as sheriff. Today we'll talk about the most recent book in the series, The Innocents.

Bonus - Melissa Ginsburg - Sunset City

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2016 29:00


    Melissa Ginsburg teaches English and creative writing at the university of Mississippi, having received her MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop. As a writer, she is a poet and a novelist having published the collection of poems, Dear Weather Ghost, and Ecco/Harper Collins has recently published her debut novel, Sunset City.    

Bonus - Megan Miranda - All the Missing Girls

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2016 29:07


Megan Miranda has enjoyed a lot of success in writing novels for young adults like Hysteria, Fracture, and The Safest Lies. Today we'll be talking about her first novel for the adult market, All the Missing Girls, about a woman returning to her small North Carolina hometown to face a new mystery and some old lies.

John Hart - Redemption Road

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2016 39:02


John Hart is a former criminal defense attorney who turned into one of America's most popular and respected writers of literary crime fiction. 2006 saw the publication of his debut novel, The King of Lies, his next two novels 2007's Down River and 2009's The Last Child each won the Edgar Award for Best novel, and Iron House followed in 2011. 2016 sees the publication of his fifth novel, Redemption Road, which is published by Thomas Dunne Books.

Bonus - Stuart Gibbs "Spaced Out" (#2 Moonbase Alpha mystery series)

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2016 33:14


Stuart Gibbs is a veteran screenwriter who has moved to the world of fiction for younger readers. He started off with the Last Musketeer series, and is now juggling three different series, Fun Jungle, Spy School, and Moonbase Alpha. Today Stuart and I will talk about the second entry into the Moonbase Alpha mystery series, Spaced Out.

Bonus - Jeff Crook - The Covenant

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2016 31:50


Jeff Crook is a veteran writer of fantasy novels, but in 2011 he broke into crime fiction scene with The Sleeping and the Dead, a novel starring a heroin addicted crime scene photographer who got her hands on a haunted camera. 2016 sees the publication of the second book in the series, The Covenant, published by Minotaur. Download here.

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