Crime Cafe

Debbi Mack interviews mystery author Ellen Byerrum on the Crime Cafe podcast. The transcript is below, if you’d like to read it. Or download the PDF copy and read it later. Debbi: Hi everyone! This is the Crime Cafe. Your podcasting source of great crime, suspense and thriller writing. I’m your host, Debbi Mack. Before I introduce my guest, a quick reminder that The Crime Cafe 9 Book Set and Crime Cafe Anthology are available for sale from all online retailers, regardless of what device you use. So, go to debbimack.com and click on “Crime Cafe” to find the buy links, subscribe to the podcast and buy awesome Crime Cafe merchandise. With that then, it’s my great, great pleasure to introduce the awesome fashionista crime writer, Ellen Byerrum. Hey Ellen, how you doing today? Ellen: I’m great Debbi. I’m so happy to be here. Thanks for asking me. Debbi: Sure thing! It’s wonderful to have you on and so let’s talk about Lacey Smithsonian. I had to laugh when I read your bio on your website and you described Was

Debbi Mack interviews crime fiction author Dave White on the Crime Cafe podcast. The transcript is below, if you’d like to read it. Debbi: Hi! This is the Crime Cafe. Your podcasting source of great crime, suspense and thriller writing. I am your host, Debbi Mack. Before I bring on my guest, I’ll just remind you that The Crime Cafe 9 Book Set and The Crime Cafe Anthology are on sale at all major online retailers for $1.99 and $.99 respectively. So, just go to my website debbimack.com. That’s debbimack.com and click on Crime Cafe and you’ll find the links for the books, as well as how to subscribe to this podcast. And with that, I’d like to introduce now, it is with great pleasure that I introduce now my guest, Dave White; the highly acclaimed Dave White. Dave: Hello. Debbi: Thanks for being here Dave. It’s great to have you on. Dave: Thank you. Thanks for having me. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while. We’ve been talking about this for a while, so this is nice. Debbi: This is awesome! I’m so

Debbi Mack interviews thriller author Zoë Sharp on the Crime Cafe podcast. The transcript is below, if you’d like to read it. Debbi: Hi everyone! This is the Crime Cafe, your podcasting source of great crime, suspense and thriller writing. I am your host, Debbi Mack. Before I bring on my guest, let me remind you that The Crime Cafe 9 Book Set is available for sale at all major and some minor online retailers. The Crime Cafe Short Story Anthology is also available online for sale and it’s $0.99 for the anthology and $1.99 for the boxed set, so check it out. Just go to debbimack.com and look under “Crime Cafe” or “Books” to find the books there. And with that, I would like to now introduce an author who created one of the most awesome female protagonists ever. The character is Charlie Fox and the author is Zoe Sharp. Zoe, it’s great to have you here today! Zoe: Thank you very much for inviting me, Debbi. It’s a pleasure to be here. Debbi: I can’t tell you how happy I am to have you on! So, you have one of t

Debbi Mack interviews crime fiction author Seth Harwood on the Crime Cafe podcast. The transcript is below, if you'd like to read it. Debbi: Hi, everyone this is the Crime Cafe, your podcasting source of great crime, suspense and thriller writing. I'm your host Debbi Mack. Before I introduce my guest, I'd like to remind you that The Crime Cafe 9 Book Set is available as well as The Crime Cafe Short Story Anthology. They're both available online on all major online retailers for $1.99 for the boxed set and $0.99 for the anthology, which is a real deal. Just go to debbimack.com and click on either Crime Cafe or my book link to find the Crime Cafe buy links. Now, having said that I am very pleased to introduce the author that I once called the ‘Golden God of Marketing’, Seth Harwood. Hey man, how you doing? Seth: Hi, thanks for having me on. Debbi: I am so happy to have you on. I’ve admired your business savvy and your writing for years, and I gotta say it seems like a million years ago that I first heard ab

Debbi Mack interviews thriller author Lawrence Kelter on the Crime Cafe podcast. The transcript is below, if you'd like to read it. Debbi: Hello, everyone this is the Crime Cafe, your podcasting source of great crime, suspense and thriller writing. I'm your host Debbi Mack. Before I introduce this week's awesome guest, I'll just remind you that the Crime Cafe boxed set—that’s nine books in the boxed set—and the Crime Cafe Short Story Anthology can be purchased online at any online retailer for the very reasonable price of $1.99 for the boxed and $0.99 for the anthology. You can get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, whatever. The buy links are on my website debbimack.com. And with that said I'm thrilled to introduce my guest Lawrence Kelter, a fellow New Yorker and thriller author. it's great to have you on Larry. Lawrence: It's great to be here. Please, let's stick with Larry. Debbi:  Larry. [laughs] Lawrence: If I get Lawrence you know, I'm gonna assume that I've done something wrong or I'm in

Debbi Mack interviews crime fiction author Timothy Hallinan on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Debbi Mack interviews thriller author Sue Coletta on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Author Debbi Mack interviews thriller author Michael Parker on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Author Debbi Mack interviews thriller author Peg Brantley on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Author Debbi Mack interviews thriller author James P. Carse on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Debbi Mack reads Chapter 3 of her New York Times bestselling hardboiled mystery, Identity Crisis, on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Author Debbi Mack interviews crime fiction author Allan Ansorge on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Author Debbi Mack interviews thriller author Patrick Kelly on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Author Debbi Mack interviews thriller author Paul Casselle on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Author Debbi Mack interviews travel mystery author Maria Hudgins on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Debbi Mack reads Chapter 3 of her New York Times bestselling hardboiled mystery, Identity Crisis, on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Author Debbi Mack interviews crime fiction author Simon Wood on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Author Debbi Mack interviews thriller author Reece Hirsch on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Debbi Mack reads Chapter 2 of her New York Times bestselling hardboiled mystery, Identity Crisis, on the Crime Cafe podcast.

Debbi Mack reads Chapter 1 of her New York Times bestselling hardboiled mystery, Identity Crisis, on the Crime Cafe podcast. Please consider lending support to the Crime Cafe podcast on Patreon. The text is below! CHAPTER ONE I’ve never been a morning person, and if there’s one thing I don’t need before my first cup of coffee, it’s a visit from the cops. But at 8:45 on a Friday morning, two of them waited for me at my law office. I shut the door on the steam heat—typical July weather in Maryland—and shook my sticky blouse loose. Seven years in practice had taught me many hard lessons. One of them should have been never to wear dry-clean-only blouses in the summer. Sheila, the seventy-plus receptionist and secretary for the accounting firm where I sublet space, gave me a brief wave while answering the phone through her ever-present headset. Her long, bony fingers clacked away at the keyboard without skipping a beat. Both men stood as I approached. I recognized Detective Martin Derry of the Prince George