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Charlotte Readers PodcastMark de Castrique’s Dangerous Women is a WinnerIn this episode 376, we welcome back Charlotte novelist Mark de Castrique, author of 23 novels. Today, we focus on his novel, Dangerous Women, the latest in his series featuring Ethel Fiona Crestwater, a seventy-five-year-old retired FBI agent who now rents rooms to active agents and is the smartest and most fearless of anyone in her household. Publishers Weekly gave Dangerous Women a Starred Review, calling it "A bewitching political thriller," and Library Journal, with its own Starred Review, says: "Politics and climate issues are entangled in a complex case that still has moments of humor."
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2024-01-3046 minCharlotte Readers PodcastStrategies for Promoting Your Writing in 2024In this episode 372, we welcome Lauren Harr, co-founder of Gold Leaf Literary Services to the podcast. Lauren has worked in the book world for twenty years as a bookseller in Asheville and Albuquerque, an assistant at literary nonprofits in Santa Fe, an intern at Graywolf Press, and a marketing assistant and publicist at Coffee House Press. She spent eight years at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe where her passions were connecting readers and books and assisting the events program. She currently lives in Asheville with her husband and daughter and holds an MFA from Spalding University’s School of Creative and Prof...
2024-01-021h 04Charlotte Readers PodcastYear-End Episode with the Storied Charlotte Blog, Publishing Tips, and Favorite 2023 ReadsIn this episode 371, we’re wrapping up a big year for the podcast in a big way. Special guest Mark West returns to share his highlights of the literary year in Charlotte. We’ll talk about takeaways from publishing nine–yes, nine–books on the podcast this year. And we also have our top reads for 2023.
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Writer, professor, and literary blogger Mark West, riding along with us as a co-host this episode, shares some of his favorite literary happenings from 2023, the backstory of his blog, and what he loves about the Charlo...
2023-12-261h 29
Get Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveDangerous Women by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dangerous Women Series: #2 of Secret Lives Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: At first it appears a mugging gone horribly wrong: one man dead and a woman left in a coma one Friday night in Washington, D.C. The woman is Arlington police detective Frank Mancini's niece and lives in the boarding house run by retired FBI-agent-turned-landlady Ethel Fiona Crestwater. Ethel and Frank are old friends, and so she volunteers to investigate the c...
2023-10-2403 min
Bookish Flights: Books, Author Interviews & Must-Read RecommendationsCivil Rights Era Books Set in the South with Author Charles “Bruce” McIntyre (E34)Send us a textIn today’s episode I am chatting with Charles Bruce McIntyre or “Bruce” to anyone who knows him, is a retired business owner and cancer survivor. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1941 and often moved while growing up. After spending seventeen years in corporate America, Bruce founded and managed a foodservice sales and marketing agency for thirty years. There Are No Answers Here, Only Questions is his first published work. In his writing, Bruce shows his ability to successfully move from transmitting boring business memos to the art of telling a good s...
2023-07-1243 minCharlotte Readers PodcastBestselling Vampire Author, and Be the ReaderIn this episode 347, we take a dark detour with Smolder, the newest novel in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series from number one New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. We learn from David Weinberg about getting inside your reader’s head, and from Charlotte Lit on writer independence. And we have book recommendations and more.
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Laurell K. Hamilton Time Stamp: 3:43
In Smolder, Vampire hunter Anita Blake is no stranger to killing monsters. It’s part of her job as a Preternatural U.S. Marshal, after all. But even her ex...
2023-07-111h 00
Poisoned Pen PodcastMark De Castrique discusses Secret LivesBarbara Peters in conversation with Mark De Castrique
2023-02-1959 minCharlotte Readers PodcastLiterary Fiction, Children’s Poetry, and the Gift of WritingIn this episode 312, we have some fun with guest co-host Mark West’s humorous children’s book, and we hear from award-winning writer Terry Roberts about his new historical novel The Sky Club, set in an Asheville speakeasy. Plus we hear from mystery writer Joe Congel about how writing can be a gift, and more.
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Terry Roberts: Time Stamp: 14:30
The Sky Club, a richly imagined look at Asheville in the 1920s-30s, is a tale of money, greed, and life after the stock market crash, from the eyes of one remarkable woman...
2022-10-281h 40
Explore New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaSecret Lives by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secret Lives Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'At seventy-five-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, although she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action—much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who ha...
2022-10-1103 min
Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseSecret Lives by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secret Lives Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: 'At seventy-five-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, although she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action—much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who ha...
2022-10-1103 minCharlotte Readers PodcastBeyond 300: The New Charlotte Readers Podcast – The Value of Writing Communities, Plus Mystery, Memoir, True Crime and Poetry FeaturesIn this episode 301, Landis introduces his two new co-hosts of Charlotte Readers Podcast and they share how the show will feature more authors and offer more readerly and writerly content in each episode, and new ways for listeners to engage–including how your voice can be part of the podcast.
We hear from three award-winning authors in the mystery, memoir, and true crime genres, and have a poetry reading.
We explore the value of critique groups and writing communities and give tips for building your writing community to help market your books long term.
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2022-06-281h 42
Quick PicksEpisode 28: Our Favorite SeriesWe have become a binging society, and what better to binge than a scrumptious book series? Tana and I have read and continue to read a ton of series of multiple genres and we're sharing a few of our favorites.
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John Sandford: Lucas Davenport, Virgil Flowers, and Letty Davenport
William Kent Krueger: Cork O'Connor
Robert B. Parker: Spenser, Jesse Stone, and Sunny Randall
Sara Paretsky: V.I. Warshawski
Elizabeth Berg: Mason
Stephen King & Richard Chizmar: The Button Box
JoJo Moyes...
2022-04-1534 minCharlotte Readers PodcastCraft Talk with Mark de Castrique: Elements of a Good StoryIn this episode 259, host Landis Wade has a craft talk with Mark de Castrique, author of 21 novels, most of them mysteries, where Mark discusses the elements of a good story and how to write a good mystery. Mark also reads from and discusses his book, "Murder in Rat Alley," a mystery set in the Asheville, North Carolina area.
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2021-11-051h 04Charlotte Readers PodcastTwo Appalachian Nurses Traverse the Same Path a Generation Apart in Rose Senehi’s “Falling Off a Cliff”In this episode 247, we visit with Rose Senehi, author of “Falling Off a Cliff,” a novel of the Appalachian Mountains, in which two women decades apart traverse the same path—one woman searching for her past, the other looking toward the future.
In the 1920’s Lula Mae traverses the harsh terrain of the Blue Ridge Mountains with another woman, a doctor determined to heal those in the oft-forgotten mountain community. Forty years later, Holly journeys to uncover the mysteries of her origins and search for the mother she’s never known.
Mark de Castrique, author of the Sam Bl...
2021-09-2436 min
Read or Dead#48: Couples That Slay Together, Stay TogetherThis episode, Katie and Rincey pick up mystery books featuring disabled protagonists.This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and The Perfect Girlfriendby Karen Hamilton. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher.To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspectsnewsletter!Show NotesHot Series Package: Steve Zaillian Meets Patricia Highsmith’s Sociopath Tom RipleyComing soon: Winter Countsby David Heska Wanbli Weiden to your lists: an #ownvoices Native American thriller!Dan Mallory, Author Who Once Faked...
2019-03-2947 min
Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveA Specter of Justice: A Sam Blackman Mystery by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/251130 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Specter of Justice: A Sam Blackman Mystery Series: #5 of The Sam Blackman Mysteries Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 22, 2015 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: When private detective Sam Blackman agrees to help his partner and lover, Nakayla Robertson, conduct a fundraiser for orphaned twins, he does so to ease his conscience. The boys’ parents were killed in a courtroom shootout where Sam was the key witness against the twins’ father. The charity event, a nighttime ghost tour of th...
2015-12-2203 min
the Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveRisky Undertaking: A Buryin’ Barry Mystery by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Risky Undertaking: A Buryin’ Barry Mystery Series: #6 of The Buryin’ Barry Mysteries Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 4, 2014 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-time undertaker, finds his dual occupations colliding. Then, during the interment of the wife of one of Gainesboro's most prominent citizens, Cherokee activist Jimmy Panther leads a protest. Words and fists fly. When Panther turns up execu...
2014-11-0403 min
Grab the Essential Full Trial Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveA Murder in Passing: A Sam Blackman Mystery by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/192490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Murder in Passing: A Sam Blackman Mystery Series: #4 of The Sam Blackman Mysteries Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: In Asheville, North Carolina, the Blackman & Robertson Detective Agency faces a disturbing reality: no clients. Sam Blackman finds inactivity intolerable, so when partner Nakayla Robertson suggests a mushroom hunt on the site of a historic freed-slave commune called the Kingdom of the H...
2013-07-0203 min
Enjoy Amazing Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseThe 13th Target by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/668210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The 13th Target Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 3, 2012 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: Russell Mullins has left intelligence work. When his wife died of cancer, Rusty quit the Secret Service to repurpose his life. He joins a private protection company in Washington, DC, and is assigned to guard Paul Luguire, a Federal Reserve executive and chief liaison with the US Treasury. Mullins and Luguire form a strong friendship. So when a police detective calls in the middle of...
2012-07-0303 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveFinal Undertaking by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/129630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Final Undertaking Series: #4 of The Buryin’ Barry Mysteries Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 16, 2012 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: When Barry Clayton’s father developed Alzheimer’s disease, Barry gave up his career in law enforcement to run the family’s funeral home in the North Carolina mountain town of Gainesboro, where he is known as Buryin’ Barry. But even a small town in the Appalachians is not immune to crime. At a summer street dance, Barry’s friend Sherif...
2012-05-1603 min
Download Top Full Trial Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveFatal Undertaking: A Buryin' Barry Mystery by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fatal Undertaking: A Buryin' Barry Mystery Series: #5 of The Buryin’ Barry Mysteries Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 1, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: You want to borrow a casket? Funeral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton finds United States Junior Chamber (Jaycee) member Archie Donovan’s request absurd until he learns the casket will be the centerpiece of the Jaycees’ haunted house, a charity event with all proceeds going to the children’s hospita...
2010-10-0103 min
Get Latest Free Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveThe Fitzgerald Ruse: A Sam Blackman Mystery by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fitzgerald Ruse: A Sam Blackman Mystery Series: #2 of The Sam Blackman Mysteries Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Former chief warrant officer and amputee Sam Blackman and his partner, Nakayla Robertson, are opening a detective agency. They have high hopes that the thriving mountain region will provide a steady stream of cases. Their first client, a quirky elderly woman in a retirement community, makes a strange r...
2009-08-0103 min
Listen to Trending Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseThe Fitzgerald Ruse: A Sam Blackman Mystery by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fitzgerald Ruse: A Sam Blackman Mystery Series: #2 of The Sam Blackman Mysteries Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 1, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: Former chief warrant officer and amputee Sam Blackman and his partner, Nakayla Robertson, are opening a detective agency. They have high hopes that the thriving mountain region will provide a steady stream of cases. Their first client, a quirky elderly woman in a retirement community, makes a strange request. S...
2009-08-0103 min
Get Latest Free Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveBlackman’s Coffin by Mark De CastriquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53161 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blackman’s Coffin Series: #1 of The Sam Blackman Mysteries Author: Mark De Castrique Narrator: William Dufris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 10, 2008 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Sam Blackman is an angry man. A chief warrant officer in the criminal investigation detachment of the US military, he lost a leg in Iraq and has been outspoken in his criticism of his medical treatment. Then, ex-marine and fellow amputee Tikima Robertson walks into his hospital room, hinting that she has an opportunity for Sam to use his...
2008-06-1003 min