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Books to Die For! Podcast

Books to Die For! Podcast

By: Alan Warren
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This show covers the Crime Fiction genre. We talk to everyone from beginners to New York Times Best Selling Authors like Dean Koontz. Hear about their techniques and styles here

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  • Meredith Doench - Never Say Die
    Apr 3 2026

    Detective Rory Scott was in college when six-year-old Savannah Armitage vanished and the body of a missing teen was found nearby in a shallow grave. The case went unsolved, but Rory’s mother's partner, Stephen, was convicted in the court of public opinion. When Rory’s mother refused to leave him, Rory broke familial ties.


    Six years later, Rory has built a life with her girlfriend Cade. When another child disappears and the unidentified body of a missing teen is found nearby, Rory knows it’s more than a coincidence. She steps in as the lead investigator, determined to find the killer and bring home the missing girls. As media swarms law enforcement for details, the state steps in, and a rookie special agent yanks Rory’s case.


    In a renegade move, Rory teams up with Savannah’s mother, a woman still desperate to find her daughter alive. When the investigation leads to the two people Rory most wants to avoid—her own mother and Stephen—Rory must face the fallout of her estrangement.


    As Rory’s personal and professional lives converge, it’s a race against time to find the connection between the cases and bring the killer to justice.


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    35 mins
  • J.T. Patten - None Witness
    Apr 1 2026

    NONE WITNESS

    Book One of the Killian Kane Series

    When the Church cannot forgive, it resolves.

    Killian Kane was never meant to survive his childhood.

    The son of a Chicago Outfit enforcer, he was raised inside a world where violence was currency and silence was survival. By seventeen, he was already cleaning what powerful men left behind. Then he vanished—erased from the criminal underworld by a secretive, Vatican-adjacent authority known only as the Resolution Office.

    They did not save him.

    They remade him.

    Now Killian serves as a Custodian, an operative tasked with containing the unforgivable. He does not kill. He erases evidence. He constructs plausible truths. He ensures the world never learns what the Church itself cannot survive revealing.

    For years, Resolution has kept its secrets buried.

    Until a priest in New York commits a brutal, ritualized murder.

    Killian is dispatched to contain the scandal. But what he finds is not a crime of passion. It is a message.

    Soon, similar killings emerge across Chicago, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis. Each murder is more public. More symbolic. More deliberate. The killer is not hiding.

    He is escalating.

    The man responsible is Lucien, a brilliant and charismatic priest who believes murder is not sin, but sacrament. He targets clergy the Church quietly protected—men whose crimes were buried through settlement, silence, and reassignment. Lucien believes he is delivering divine justice.

    And he knows things he should not know.

    He knows about Resolution.

    He knows about its methods.

    He knows about Killian.

    As Killian closes in, the Resolution Office assigns him an Instrument—an assassin authorized to perform Terminal Resolution. Forced into partnership with sanctioned violence, Killian begins to uncover a truth more terrifying than Lucien’s crusade:

    Resolution did not just recruit him.

    It engineered him.

    Now hunted by the system that created him and pursued by a killer who believes himself chosen, Killian must confront the possibility that he was never meant to serve justice.

    Only to contain it.

    Because when Resolution fails, there are none left to witness.


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    34 mins
  • Dwayne Brenna - The Laundryman
    Mar 27 2026

    In the frozen heart of the 1883 Canadian frontier, a single death unveils a darkness that could consume a town—and the men sworn to protect it.

    Corporal Belvedere, a Mountie scarred by a brutal past, and Surgeon Virgil Montgomery, a newcomer haunted by his own doubts, are drawn into a murder investigation in the isolated settlement of Prince Albert. As winter’s grip tightens, the killing exposes a web of secrets buried beneath the snow, threatening to unravel the fragile order of the North-West Territories.

    In a community steeped in mistrust, Belvedere’s unyielding quest for justice collides with Montgomery’s struggle to uphold his oath to do no harm. Each clue they uncover draws them deeper into a maze of deception, where allies and enemies blur and every step risks a deadly reckoning. As the ice on the North Saskatchewan River begins to crack, they must confront a truth that could cost them their lives—or their souls.

    A gripping tale of vengeance and redemption, The Laundryman plunges you into a world where justice battles betrayal, and the truth lies buried in a frozen wilderness.


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    27 mins
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