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This is a monthly podcast that dives into conversations with mystery and thriller authors. Hosted by author, and publisher, Bill Peschel.

  1. FEB 14

    MMB Presents...A Conversation with Heather Weidner

    Episode #37: A Conversation with Heather Weidner(February 7, 2025) Heather is a prolific mystery author with 12 books in four series. We talk with Heather about being the daughter of a police officer and how it influenced her writing, growing up in Virginia Beach, and the debut of her Pearly Girls series in March which she described as “Veronica Mars meets the Golden Girls.”

    27 min

  2. JAN 17

    MMB Presents...A Conversation with Kemper Donovan

    Episode #36: A Conversation with Kemper Donovan (January 9, 2025) Kemper is an Agatha Christie fan whose podcast "All About Agatha" is a must hear for her fans. He has turned the lessons learned from the Queen of Crime to write mysteries. The second book in his Ghostwriter series, “Loose Lips,” drops in January 2025, so we sat down with him to talk about his journey from agent to lawyer to writer, why he started writing at age 30, Agatha’s influence on his writing and how he adds his unique voice to his mysteries.

    47 min

  3. 12/12/2024

    MMB Presents...A Conversation with Wendy Neugent

    Episode #35: A Conversation with Wendy Neugent (October 21, 2024) Wendy spent a decade seeing the world from the deck of cruise ships, and she used those experiences in her Olivia Morgan Cruise Ship mystery series. Neugent talks with host Bill Peschel about life on board a cruise ship, the perils of performing a magic act, the most beautiful places she saw, and how she transitioned into motherhood and mystery writer.

    37 min

  4. 09/05/2024

    MMB Presents...A Conversation with Katherine Ramsland

    Episode #34: A Conversation with Katherine Ramsland (July 30, 2024) Where do you begin with the author of more than 70 books including thrillers, serial killer memoirs, biographies, and self-help? Ramsland talks with host Bill Peschel about “Dead Handed,” her upcoming third book featuring forensic psychologist Annie Hunter. She also describes writing “Confession of a Serial Killer” based on interviews with the BTK Killer, and “The Serial Killer’s Apprentice” about a teen’s coerced participation in several murders in Houston in the early 1970s.

    1 hr

  5. 08/05/2024

    MMB Presents...A Conversation with Tom Mead - Pt. 2

    Episode #33: A Conversation with Tom Mead (June 28, 2024) The author of the Joseph Spector series returns with publication of “Cabaret Macabre,” the third book in the series. We talk about the novel’s roots in the grisly and revenge-obsessed Jacobean theater, and (no spoilers!) it’s ironic and twisty endings. We also talk about Tom’s training as a writer, including a first-class honors at university, his freelance ghostwriting, and the opportunity to submit the first Spector novel to Otto Penzler.

    47 min

  6. 06/08/2024

    MMB Presents...A Conversation with Ruth J. Hartman

    Episode #32: A Conversation with Ruth J. Hartman (June 5, 2024) With so much experience taking care of her own cats, Author Ruth J. Hartman, was bound to begin writing cozy mysteries with the lovable felines. Hear how her writing career got started, and how a bonded pair of brother and sister cats, unintentionally helped her in gathering research for a future book. (Not to mention that she has multiple series featuring amateur sleuths and their cat side-kicks.)

    32 min

  7. 05/09/2024

    MMB Presents...A Conversation with Joyce Tremel

    Episode #31: A Conversation with Joyce Tremel (May 6, 2024) Do you like apple orchards, picturesque farmland, and a cozy mystery? Deadly to the Core is the first in a new series for Author Joyce Tremel, aka Joyce St. Anthony for her Homefront News Mysteries, and it features new fruit farm owner Kate Mulligan in the area of Gettysburg, PA. She plans to open a cider house, when the orchard's manager is found dead, leaving her in a tight bind. As the people in the area receive mysterious offers to buy up their lands, and the dead man's bank account is revealed to have unexplained deposits of cash, Kate must find out who the murderer is before her fresh start is clipped prematurely.

    17 min

  8. 04/04/2024

    MMB Presents...A Conversation with Laurie R. King

    Episode #30: A Conversation with Laurie R. King (Mar. 29, 2024) The author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series talks with fellow author, and host, Bill Peschel, as they dive into the latest adventure of her two beloved characters in The Lantern's Dance. It seemed only fitting to have the author of The Beekeeper's Apprentice, which is celebrating it's 30th anniversary of being published this year, on our 30th episode of our show!

    55 min
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This is a monthly podcast that dives into conversations with mystery and thriller authors. Hosted by author, and publisher, Bill Peschel.

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  • Creator
    Mechanicsburg Mystery Bookshop
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    36
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Mechanicsburg Mystery Bookshop
  • Show Website
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