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G.P. Gottlieb: Murder, Mystery, and Recipes: Just a Little Cozy
NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Literary Fiction
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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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.
Aftertaste
Daria Lavelle
In Aftertaste (Simon & Schuster, 2025) Konstantin Duhovny’s father died when he was young, and his mother is too anguished to raise him, so he raises himself, but not very well.
White: A Novel
Aviva Rubin
Sarah Cartell, who grew up in a White Supremacist family controlled by a violent grandfather who preaches hate and violence, learns from books and a kind librarian that there’s another way to see the world.
November 19, 2025
If the Owl Calls
Sharon White
As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the north of the country to investigate sabotage on a damn.
November 11, 2025
Happy New Years
Maya Arad
After finishing her teaching degree in Israel, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades.
November 4, 2025
Simone in Pieces
Janet Burroway
Simone Lerrante is a Belgian orphan whose memory is damaged by the trauma of her father being shot by Nazis and her subsequent escape to England.
September 9, 2025
Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser
Mona’s Eyes (Europa Editions, 2025) is an enchanting debut novel written by art historian Thomas Schlesser. It tells the story of a 10-year-old girl living in Paris who briefly loses her vision.
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