Author: TG Wolff

Story Teller, Podcaster, Mystery Lover

M2D4 S8E6: Safe Haven (Part 1) by Jason Little

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Branch River Fire Fighter Barrett Turner was alone at the firehouse when an infant was abandoned in the Safe Haven box. New to the process, Barrett called the number posted on a flier for Child Protective Services. The woman who was dispatched, Tricia Vickers, took the baby and subsequently…tried to murder him! Now Barrett is working double time to keep little Davey safe and figure out why so many people have it out for the blue eyed sweetie.

Listen to Part 1 here or wherever you get Mysteries to Die For podcast

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ABOUT Jason Little
Jason Little is a Texas-based writer with a knack for spinning tales that keep readers hooked. His contributions to Mysteries to Die For are packed with twists, suspense, and unforgettable characters. When he’s not crafting mysteries, he’s writing fiction on his blog at JasonLittleWriting.com, where you can dive into more of his stories and musings.

A life insurance agent by day, Jason is also a proud dad of two, a loving fiancé, and a dog enthusiast. He’s big on exploring VR worlds, staying active, and finding inspiration in everyday life.

Follow him on X at @jasonlwriter and stay updated on his latest projects, or drop by his blog to read more and connect—he’d love to hear from you!

About Safe Haven
We are not going to talk about infanticide but I will give you a little background on Safe Haven Baby Boxes. Many states have laws allowing for the safe and legal surrender of infants, something that was enacted to combat the abandonment of babies. Founded in 2015 by Monica Kelsey of the small city of Woodburn, Indiana, Safe Haven Baby Boxes are constructed boxes that hold a baby similar to a bassinette. These are installed in secure locations, including fire stations, with alarming to indicate to those inside that a child has been placed inside. The babies are attended to within minutes and ultimately entrusted to the local Child Protection.
https://www.shbb.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Haven_Baby_Boxes

Toe Tag: Dying to Know by Tj O’Connor

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Dying to Know is a paranormal mystery. Police detective Oliver “Tuck” Tucker is dead, killed in his own home. While his body is gone, his spirit remains, but to do what? Solve his murder? Protect his wife? Figure out why his best friend and partner is hiding evidence? So much to do,  so little idea how to do it.

Bottom line: Dying to Know is for you if you like mysteries told in a new and unexpected way.

Listen to chapters 1 and 2 here or wherever you find Mysteries to Die For Podcast

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About Tj O’Connor

Tj O’Connor is an award-winning author of mysteries and thrillers. He’s an international security consultant specializing in anti-terrorism, investigations, and threat analysis—life experiences that drive his novels. As a government agent and years as a consultant, he has lived and worked throughout many countries in the European Union and the Americas. In his spare time, he’s a Harley Davidson pilot, a man-about-dogs (and now cats), and a lover of adventure, cooking, and good spirits (both kinds).

Catch Up With Tj O’Connor: tjoconnor.com

Partners In Crime Tours represents a network of 300+ bloggers offering tailor-made virtual book tours and marketing options for crime, mystery and thriller writers from around the world. Founded in 2011, PICT offers services for well-established and best-selling authors, as well as those just starting out with their careers. PICT prides itself on its tailored packages for authors, with a personal touch from the tour coordinators. For more information, check out their website www.partnersincrimetours.com

S8E4 The Last Diamond by Kathleen Marple Kalb

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Legendary actress Susan Sawyer is auctioning off the 33.3-carat Sawyer-Corey Diamond. A gift from her beloved husband, the proceeds will fund a new NYC non-profit that helps with a simple basic: a complete, hot meal. As she takes one last look at her treasure, she announces the unthinkable. The diamond she held was a fake. Now NYC detective Connie Mercado is on the case and working to suss out who of the people connected to Miss Sawyer and the Sawyer-Corey Diamond is a thief. Here is a list of the people Miss Sawyer reported had access to the ring:

  • Dana Jones-Stann, accountant, keeper of the safe deposit box keys
  • Allison Boatwright, assistant at the auction house, sheltered, pampered, rudderless
  • Everett Goodwin, auction house director, butt kissing twerp

Listen here or wherever you find Mysteries to Die For podcast

ABOUT Kathleen Marple Kalb
https://kathleenmarplekalb.com/

Kathleen Marple Kalb describes herself as an Author/Anchor/Mom…not in that order. An award-winning weekend anchor at New York’s 1010 WINS Radio, she’s the author of short stories and novels including the Old Stuff and Ella Shane series, and, as Nikki Knight, the Grace the Hit Mom and Vermont Radio series. Her stories, under both pen names, have been in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Weekly, and many anthologies, and short-listed for Derringer and Black Orchid Novella Awards. Active in writer’s groups, she’s served as Vice President of the Short Mystery Fiction Society and Co-VP of the New York/Tri-State Sisters in Crime Chapter. She, her husband, and son live in a Connecticut house owned by their cat.

Toe Tag: Early Termination by Cindy Goyette

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Early Termination is a suspense crime novel. Parole Officer Casey Carson has her hands full with a stacked case load and a rookie to train. Her workload takes a twist when one of her clients is found dead with her business card stuff in his mouth. Now the cops want her, members of the Diablo gang want her, her ex-husband and her new maybe plaything, they both want her, too.

Bottom line: Early Termination is for you if you like fast-paced crime stories woven with suspense, thrills, and humor.

Listen to chapters one and two here or wherever you get Mysteries to Die For podcast

About Cindy Goyette

Cindy Goyette is a former probation officer who had a front row seat to the criminal justice system. She kept her sanity by finding humor in most situations. A mix of these things helped her create The Probation Case Files Mystery Series. After spending over twenty years in Arizona, Cindy lives in Washington state with her husband and two Cocker Spaniels. Visit her at CCGoyette.com

Partners In Crime Tours represents a network of 300+ bloggers offering tailor-made virtual book tours and marketing options for crime, mystery and thriller writers from around the world. Founded in 2011, PICT offers virtual book tour services for well-established and best-selling authors, as well as those just starting out with their careers. PICT prides itself on its tailored packages for authors, with a personal touch from the tour coordinators. For more information, check out their website partnersincrimetours.com

S8E3: Will the Real John Shady Please Stand Up? by TG Wolff

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Eleanon Shady is dying. She has turned to her trusted attorney, Brenda Salsbury, to find her heir, the nephew she hasn’t seen for thirty years. The problem is three men claim to be John Shady. Now Brenda and her partner in training Dylan need our help to protect Nora’s estate and transfer it to her rightful heir. Here are the candidates:

  • John Sarasota, the sunny John who would be fun to have an umbrella drink with
  • John Chicago, the impatient John who leads with attitude
  • John Spokane, the sulky John whose spirit animal is eeyore

Listen here, on our new podcast website m2d2podcast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts!

ABOUT TG Wolff

Like you, I’m not one thing. I’m a writer, an engineer, a wife, and a mother. What is first on the list depends on the day. Beyond the title I claim, I’m a person who loves learning and thoroughly enjoys a good puzzle, is creative and gets bored easily. I hold a BS in Civil Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MS in Civil Engineering from Cleveland State University, which gives me absolutely no background in writing, but I do it anyway. Writing mysteries and engineering isn’t as different as you’d think. Both require using logic and process to get from a starting problem to a solution.

Find me at www.tgwolff.com

Toe Tag: The Chemical Detective by Fiona Erskine

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The Chemical Detective is a thriller. Dr. Jaqueline Silver, who answers to Jaq, is a chemical engineer putting her considerable talents to work keeping the alpine slopes avalanche free by detonating controlled explosions. When she notices an anomaly in the explosives delivery, she pulls unwittingly on a house of cards and brings down a whole lot more than snow.

Bottom line: The Chemical Detective is for you if you like heroes chill and your thrills explosive

Listen to the first sections and the full review here, on our new website m2d4podcast.com, or wherever you get Mysteries to Die For podcast

The Chemical Detective was released in the UK in 2019 and released here in the States in August 2024, is promoted by Partners In Crime Tours and is available from AMAZON.

About Fiona Erskine

fionaerskine.com

Fiona Erskine is a professional engineer. Based in the north of England and working internationally, she has often been the lone representative of her gender in board meetings, cargo ships and night-time factories. Her fiction offers a fascinating insight into the traditionally male world of heavy industry. Fiona’s stand-alone portrait of a Scottish factory, Phosphate Rocks: A Death In Ten Objects, made the UK Literary Review’s top ten crime novels of 2021. Her latest series introduces DI Cadell in a cyber thriller  – Losing Control: Terror in Teesside. Fiona is passionate about music and outdoor swimming, though not generally at the same time.

There will be a ONE WEEK US Kindle Countdown deal on Phosphate Rocks (my best book!). It’ll be $0.99 from Sunday, February 2 to Sunday, February 9th, 2025. 

About Partners In Crime Tours

PICT represents a network of 300+ bloggers offering tailor-made virtual book tours and marketing options for crime, mystery and thriller writers from around the world. Founded in 2011, PICT offers virtual book tour services for well-established and best-selling authors, as well as those just starting out with their careers. PICT prides itself on its tailored packages for authors, with a personal touch from the tour coordinators. For more information, check out their website partnersincrimetours.com

S8E2: Going to the Dogs by Bonnar Spring

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Gordon’s beloved Duke, a King Charles Springer Spaniel, had been dognapped! He’s back home after being gone a week and Gordon wants to know who snatched his special pooch. His grandson Evan enlists his girlfriend, Mamie Lockwood to investigate. While Mamie may have figured out what’s going on but Evan definitely needs our help to unpack this dognapping caper for his grandfather. Here are the suspects in the order we met them:

  • Janice Dobosh, the real estate agent who swears she had an appointment
  • Bonnie, the daily housekeeper with a dog of her own
  • Lou, the down on his luck musician turned chauffeur and handy man
  • Paul, the cousin with a checkered past

Listen here, on our new website M2D4podcast.com, or wherever you get Mysteries to Die For podcast. Now available on YouTube @MysteriesToDieFor

MEET Bonnar Spring

Bonnar Spring writes international thrillers and short stories with morally ambiguous protagonists. A nomad at heart, she hitchhiked across Europe at sixteen, joined the Peace Corps after college, and trekked to Machu Picchu for a significant birthday. Bonnar’s short fiction has won both the Al Blanchard and Derringer Awards. She hosts the Crime Wave podcast, part of the Authors on the Air Radio Network.

Toe Tag: A Cold, Cold, World by Elena Taylor

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A Cold, Cold World is a cop mystery. Sheriff Bet Rivers is facing her first real challenge: the snowstorm of the century is bearing down on the small town of Collier, WA. She has a plan for keeping the main loop clear, the residents warm and healthy. Now she just needs to worry about her only deputy’s 9-months-pregnant wife and the dead body found on Iron Horse Ridge.

Bottom line: A Cold, Cold World is for you if you like classic mysteries against a background of life in action.

Listen to the first chapter and full review here or wherever you find Mysteries to Die For podcast

MEET Elena Taylor

www.ElenaTaylorAuthor.com

Elena Taylor spent several years working in theater as a playwright, director, designer, and educator before turning her storytelling skills to fiction. She writes the Sheriff Bet Rivers mysteries, featuring a female sheriff filling her late father’s rather big shoes in her small, mountain town. She also writes the quirky Eddie Shoes mysteries under the name Elena Hartwell. Elena is a senior editor with Allegory Editing, a boutique editing house, where she works one-on-one with writers to shape and polish manuscripts.  Elena’s favorite place to be is at Paradise, the property she and her hubby own south of Spokane, Washington. 

A note from the author: A Cold, Cold, World is available now in hardback, audio, and ebook. Paperback release is April 2025

A Cold, Cold World is promoted by Partners In Crime Tours, who represents a network of 300+ bloggers offering tailor-made virtual book tours and marketing options for crime, mystery and thriller writers from around the world. Founded in 2011, PICT offers services for well-established and best-selling authors, as well as those just starting out with their careers. PICT prides itself on its tailored packages for authors, with a personal touch from the tour coordinators. For more information, check out their website partnersincrimetours.com

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Book Review: Betrayal by Ed Teja

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Betrayal is a thriller. Corporal Tina Clarke received a medical discharge from the Army. She didn’t want it or need it, but there she is, back in Kingman, AZ with no options, no future, and one friend who has problems of her own. A lawyer for everyman, Bobby Black, thinks Tina has potential and if she can get out from under the Army’s eye, she just might make something out of this hole she’s in.

Bottom line: Betrayal is for you if you like thrillers at an “every day” level where underdogs have heroes, too.

This is the origin story. We know Tina Clarke’s Army experience does not match working in the motor pool as her official papers show. But what exactly she did, well, that’s classified. We know she was unceremoniously discharged and returned to her point of origin: Kingman, AZ. Without an official transition, Tina has nothing but a high school BFF who is living on the lower side of life and a lawyer who gave us the high stakes game to work from a storefront.

The characters are intelligently crafted, allowing room to grow as the series develops. Tina has her secrets and is trying to figure out the game being played and who can be trusted. The lawyer, Bobby Black, is shrewd, bold, and comes at cases from all angles, even those less than legal. Beryl is the BFF who grew up to be a diner waitress who sells drugs for the local gang, Kingman Roughnecks while trying to avoid questions about her recently deceased boyfriend from the gang, the cops, and Tina. The cast of characters includes a detective trying to solve the case of a drug buy gone very wrong and the head of biker gang working to get his money and the product while keeping control of his gang. Every character is out for their own goal…maybe with the exception of Bobby. He is the white knight in the sea of gray.

The thrill comes from the conflict created when the goals of these characters collide. Tina is, to some extent, caught in the middle. Not one to run and hide, she decides to fight her way out.

The logic of this holds well. The characters act according to their primary goals and it’s a matter of who is going to come out on top. The pacing of the story is a bit slower than typical in a thriller. I chalk this up to being an origin story, which builds the backstory and motivation for the lead character to become the hero.

This is the first book in the series and was an easy read. The characters were easy to distinguish (something I often struggle with) which added to my enjoyment.

S8E1: Who Shot Liberty’s Valence? by Ed Teja

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Private Investigator Matt Cramer is on a hot case, doing a solid for his buddy Harry and his insurance company on an arson case. Liberta Pharma backed a start-up company working on a cutting edge vaccine. The fire took out the research and the custom equipment. Matt knows it’s somebody in the lab with an accelerant and fire. He needs our help with the ‘somebody.’ Here’s his shallow suspect pool in the order we met them: .

  • Paul Larson, former Liberty researcher turned entrepreneur with ValenceTech
  • Alexa Holder, investment manager who is reeling in the investors
  • Randy Cline, vaccine manager on whose work ValenceTech is built
  • Leslie Ellis, former assistant who mistrusted the group’s ethics
  • Josh Walker, influencer and anti-vaxxer looking for a conspiracy

Listen here or wherever you find Mysteries to Die For Podcast

About author ED TEJA

Ed Teja is a full-time writer and part-time martial arts instructor. His stories (which have little or no respect for genre and take place in one or more of the surreal worlds he lives in) have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies. His new thriller series about Tina Clarke, the world’s first Storefront Assassin, is available on Amazon.

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