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G.P. Gottlieb: Murder, Mystery, and Recipes: Just a Little Cozy
NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
July 14, 2026
A Moment's Surrender
John Burt
It’s 1980, a decade after he dropped out of grad school, and Paul Bishop is a lowly writing instructor at a college in Nevada.
July 7, 2026
Achilles's Wife
Judith Starkston
Thetis, the sea goddess who tried to make her son Achilles invulnerable by dipping him in the River Styx, is now faced with trying to shield him from being killed in yet another war.
June 23, 2026
Crown City, A Japantown Mystery
Naomi Hirahara
In Crown City (A Japantown Mystery)" (Soho Crime, 2026), Ryunosuke “Ryui Wada is orphaned at 18, with no family or path left in Japan. He’s lucky when merchants from the states pay for him to get to Pasadena to work in their store selling authentic Japanese merchandise.
Earth 7: A Novel
Deb Olin Unferth
Thanks to “forever” plastics, the earth has reverted to sand and dust. Dylan has been raised by her scientist mother in a pod under the sea, and longs to escape the loneliness of being confined. The only friend she ever had was a pen pal from Mars, who disappeared. With great effort, she’s escorted onto land, to the place of her mother’s employment where she becomes the groundskeeper.
June 2, 2026
We Meet Apart
Martha Conway
It’s 1940 and Gaby’s parents and sister succumb to Typhus after staying in France to care for Gaby and Sabine’s dying grandmother. The war is in full swing and Gaby can’t get home to Poughkeepsie, NY. Her aunt lives in Ireland, which stayed neutral during WWII, so she heads there. But the aunt has just died, and 18-year-old Gaby makes her way to the remote manor of her aunt’s husband’s relatives, where she’s hired as a servant.
May 12, 2026
Marriage to the Sea
Sarah Stone
Six years ago, Katya Zamarin’s mother was murdered by a stranger who also maimed her Aunt Julia. More recently, her father died of a heart attack.
May 5, 2026
The Violet Hour
James Cahill
A wealthy, old art collector always wants more, a successful gallery owner finds herself alone, and a famous painter at the top of his game might have been involved with the mysterious death of an art gallery employee.
April 21, 2026
And The Ancestors Sing
Radha Lin Chaddah
Starting in the late 1970s, three women navigate post-Cultural Revolution China.
April 1, 2026
Far From Uncertain: One Woman’s Life of Crime & Other Righteous Deeds
Teddy Jones
When a young reporter comes to interview Margaret Kenyon, the oldest practicing nurse in the Texas panhandle, she tells him that he’ll have to listen to her story before she answers any questions.
March 24, 2026
Song of the Bluebird
Esther Goldenberg
Much of history has revolved around the journeys, challenges, and relationships, of men, but Serrah, daughter of Asher describes the teachings of her mother, grandmother, and all the women who shared their skills, compassion, hopes, and dreams.
March 3, 2026
Well of Deception
Cynthia Leal Massey
When turkey farmer Maggie Schneider is shot to death one morning in 1958, her neighbor and brother-in-law, Amos Becker, is the prime suspect, but he’s disappeared.
February 24, 2026
Dog
Yishai Ishi Ron
Told through the eyes of an Israeli combat officer who’s haunted by the trauma of fighting in Gaza, Dog (Soncata Press 2025) is a gritty story about PTSD, the effects of war, and resilience.
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February 17, 2026
Swiss Vendetta
Tracee de Hahn
Agnes Luthi is a police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland who transfers from financial to violent crimes just in time to investigate the death of a young art appraiser in a magnificent mountain chateau.
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A Judge’s Tale: A Trailblazer Fights for her Place on the Bench
Janet Kintner
Janet Kintner survived a difficult father and several assaults, but she didn’t let any of it stop her from pursuing law school as one of three women at the University of Arizona.
Becoming Sarah
Diane Botnick
Sarah Vogel was born in Auschwitz and liberated at age three, but she has no memories of being there and nobody to tell her the story of her birth or her mother.
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