Contact mystery author and recipe creator, G. P. Gottlieb and follow her on social media. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Eco-Fiction 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 1, 2025 Port Anna Libby Buck Port Anna tells the story of a quiet town on the Maine coast that has attracted the attention of wealthy investors seeking a picturesque, windswept summer cottage overlooking the ocean. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 29, 2024 The Waters Bonnie Jo Campbell Hermine “Herself” Zook is a healer who rules over an island in a swampy area of Michigan known as “The Waters.” People, including her three grown daughters, fear her, but her powerful herbal and plant-based medicines have cured the townspeople for decades of viruses, pains, and unwanted pregnancies. Listen to Episode Buy Book March 19, 2024 The Stark Beauty of Last Things Céline Keating The Stark Beauty of Last Things (She Writes Press, 2023) is set in Montauk, the far reaches of the famed Hamptons, an area under looming threat from a warming climate and overdevelopment. Now outsider Clancy, a thirty-six-year-old claims adjuster scarred by his orphan childhood, has inherited an unexpected legacy: the power to decide the fate of Montauk’s last parcel of undeveloped land. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 3, 2023 Dry Land B. Platek It's 1917 during WWI, and Rand Brandt is living with two dangerous secrets, either of which could destroy him: 1) he can grow any plant or tree, but everything he grows will die within days, and 2) he is gay during a time when the army does not accept homosexuality. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 24, 2023 The Kudzu Queen Mimi Herman Kudzu salesman James T. Cullowee arrives in Cooper County, North Carolina in the spring of 1941 to spread the gospel of kudzu. It can apparently feed cattle, improve soil, grow with no effort, be turned into jam, and cure headaches. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 20, 2022 Starling Sarah Jane Butler "Starling is 19 and was raised in a camper van by a strong-willed mother who cut them off from their community of fellow travelers. Starling, who has never gone to school or to the dentist, knows the nomadic life of trapping rabbits, foraging for food, and getting kicked out by local police." Listen to Episode Buy Book October 31, 2019 Pigs Johanna Stoberock In her new novel Pigs, Johanna Stoberock has written a lyrical fable about an island that receives all the world’s garbage. That garbage, both physical and psychological in the forms of dreams and memories, is consumed by six enormous, voracious pigs. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 30, 2019 Kickdown Rebecca Clarren Two sisters are struggling to save their land when a gas well explodes on a neighboring ranch in western Colorado, setting off a disturbing chain of events. This is a moving debut novel about family, land, and the preservation of both in rural America. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 15, 2020 Watershed Mark Barr It’s 1937 and rural Tennessee is still recovering from the Great Depression. The construction of a huge dam brings job seekers, fortune hunters, and the promise of electricity to the area. Claire, a young mother of two, realizes her marriage is over when she wakes up with a sexually transmitted disease brought home by her husband. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 8, 2020 No Entry Gila Green Yael’s parents originally emigrated to Canada from South Africa years before and have returned while mourning the tragic death of Yael’s brother. Yael, also in mourning, but busy learning everything from medic training to driving on the left side of the road, uncovers a deadly elephant poaching ring. After witnessing some horrible violence, she just isn’t sure what to do about it. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 29, 2020 Dreaming the Marsh Elizabeth McCulloch A giant sinkhole begins swallowing an enormous swath of a marsh-like ecosystem that has been slated for development, along with parts of a highway and a large lake. The citizens of Opakulla, Florida struggle to understand what is happening as the land is sucked under. They’re also perplexed by un-erasable writing that appears on their new town hall. The sinkhole starts wreaking havoc with their lives and nobody knows what to do about it. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 23, 2021 Just River Sara B. Fraser The Otis River flows through the once bustling city of Wattsville, a few hours north of NYC, reminding the remaining residents of better days. 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Explore captivating global fiction author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb. Discover diverse stories in our global fiction author interviews podcast. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Global Fiction 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 21, 2026 And The Ancestors Sing Radha Lin Chaddah Starting in the late 1970s, three women navigate post-Cultural Revolution China. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book September 30, 2025 Isabella's Way Barbara Stark Nemon In early-seventeenth-century Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany, dangers are plentiful—especially for those of Jewish heritage. Non-Catholics have been expelled from Spain, and the Inquisition has come to Portugal to impose its prohibitions. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 26, 2025 Go On Pretending Alina Adams Rose Janowitz is surprised to get a production job with a radio soap opera and stunned to fall in love with the show’s African American leading man. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 12, 2025 The Dime Museum Joyce Hinnefeld The Dime Museum is a novel told in stories that span from the 1920s, when Dime Museums were a way for people to gawk at human differences, through 2020, during the ravages of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 24, 2025 The Palace at the End of the Sea Simon Tolkien Theo Sterling is eleven when his grandfather kidnaps him, just for the afternoon. He learns that his father had shed his Jewish identity, married a very Catholic woman from Mexico, and stopped talking to either of his parents. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Explore engaging historical fiction author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb. Dive into NBN Podcast Episodes for insightful historical fiction author interviews. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Historical Fiction 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 18, 2025 Naked Girl Janna Brooke Wallack After their mother dies, Jackson Jones is too busy selling drugs and bedding young women to pay attention to his two motherless children. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 24, 2024 The Case of the Missing Maid Rob Osler Set in 1898, Harriet Morrow is 21, supports her 16-year-old brother, and has been accepted as the first female detective at the Prescott Agency. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 18, 2023 The Isolated Seance Jeri Westerson It’s 1895, and Tim Badger, who is quite familiar with the inside of a jail cell, and his intuitive friend Ben Watson, who is Black in a society that is weary of difference, are unlikely detectives. But Tim was once one of the Baker Street Irregular urchins who ran errands and spied for the great Sherlock Holmes, and the two young men are trying to be detectives. Listen to Episode Buy Book May 23, 2023 After the Barricades Jessica Stilling After her mother dies in a tragic accident, Anna cleans out her closet and finds a striking painting that she’d never seen before. She also finds a trove of letters from Stefan Terre, a name she’s never heard. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 17, 2023 I Meant to Tell You Fran Hawthorne I Meant to Tell You, by Fran Hawthorne (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022) opens during a conversation between Miranda Isaacs and her fiancé, Russ, who is going through an FBI security check as a prelude to getting his dream job in the U.S. Attorney’s office. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 29, 2022 We are All Together Richard Fulco Stephen Cane is a guitarist – he’s already walked out on one band to join another one that subsequently falls apart. He gets himself to New York City to try to rejoin his first band, the one headed by his best friend and former bandmate, Dylan John. It’s 1967, drugs and girls are everywhere, Dylan is on the verge of becoming a rock n’ roll star, and Stephen makes some extremely poor choices. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 15, 2022 The Lindbergh Nanny Mariah Fredericks Charles Lindbergh and his wife were out on the night of the kidnapping, but the nanny was home. After the baby disappeared from his bed, that nanny, Betty Gow, became a prime suspect, and her life was never the same. She was known thereafter as the Lindbergh Nanny. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 11, 2019 The Flavia de Luce Mystery Series Alan Bradley This book introduced the intrepid 11-year-old protagonist, Flavia de Luce, who lives in an enormous manor house in England, with her widowed father and two sisters. It’s 1950, and England is still rebuilding itself after WWII. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 8, 2022 Under a Veiled Moon Karen Odden When the Princess Alice pleasure boat collides with a huge iron-hulled cargo ship on the Thames River, it’s split in half, and only 130 of the 650 passengers and crew members survive. It’s 1878, and clues point to sabotage by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which has already used violence in hopes of restoring Home Rule. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 17, 2020 The Anglophile's Notebook Sunday Taylor Californian Claire Easton, who writes a magazine column called “The Anglophile’s Notebook,” travels to England to do research for a book about Charlotte Brontë. She’s already in love with England, where her late mother grew up and where she plans to find some healing now that her marriage of twenty years is imploding. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 27, 2020 Death of the Chinese Field Hands Anne Louise Bannon When Anne Louise Bannon heard her husband, then archivist for the City of Los Angeles, speak about the how early Angelenos dug a large ditch (a zanja) to cull water from the Porciuncula River (now known as the Los Angeles River), her first thought was that the Zanja would be an interesting place to find a dead body. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 12, 2020 Road to Delano John DeSimone In John DeSimone's Road to Delano (Rare Bird Books, 2020), it's 1968, and Cesar Chavez is organizing the United Farm Workers to fight for decent working conditions and basic human rights, while growers get increasingly violent in trying to prevent unionization. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 31, 2020 Pale Edward A. Farmer It’s 1966, and Bernice’s husband has either died or abandoned her. 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Discover memoir author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb. Dive into engaging memoir author interviews on our NBN Podcast Episodes page today! NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Memoir 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 17, 2025 Not From Here: the Song of America Leah Lax When Leah Lax was asked to write an opera to celebrate local immigrants, she began by spending a year listening to accounts of upheaval, migration, and arrival told her in confidence by people from around the globe. She felt she had discovered America, found its great beating heart. Listen to Episode Buy Book May 20, 2025 The Murmur of Everything Moving Maureen Stanton Maureen Stanton’s new memoir, The Murmur of Everything Moving (Columbus State University 2025) opens when she was in her early twenties, working at a bar saving for a backpacking trip through Europe. Listen to Episode Buy Book March 4, 2025 Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell Paul Lisicky Paul Lisicky remembers when he first heard Joni Mitchell on the radio, and when he found one of her records in a bin at Korvettes. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 22, 2024 The Adventures of Cancer Bitch S.L. Wisenberg It’s 2006, and S. L. Wisenberg is teaching writing at one of Chicago’s great universities and living a busy life when she’s gobsmacked by a sudden cancer diagnosis. In small but powerful journal entries, she bemoans friends who’ve died, expresses disdain for her body, worries about her future, recalls previous adventures, and jokes about the seriousness of her illness. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 25, 2024 Life Span Molly Giles Molly Giles looks back at moments of her childhood, her mistakes and missteps, getting pregnant at eighteen, marrying her boyfriend and having a second child, divorcing, marrying a second time but failing to find the happiness she knows she deserves. As the decades passed, she edited many well-known novels and popped out four story collections, two novels, and this brutally honest memoir. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 20, 2024 Secrets of the Sun Mako Yoshikawa Mako Yoshikawa's Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir (Mad Creek Books 2024) contains a host of essays about her difficult, brilliant father. Shoichi Yoshikawa grew up in a wealthy family in 1930s Japan, but his mother died when he was five, and he died alone on the eve of Mako’s wedding. Listen to Episode Buy Book September 5, 2023 I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975 Kathleen M. Osberger In 1975, Kathleen Osberger, who’d just graduated from Notre Dame University, flew to Chile to teach in a Catholic school in Santiago. She was assigned to live with several religious women, and when she arrived, was told that they would sometimes shelter dissidents who were wanted by the secret police. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 27, 2023 Set Adrift: A Mystery and A Memoir Sarah Conover When racing yacht “The Revonoc” went down in the Bermuda Triangle’s Sargasso Sea during a freakish storm in January of 1958, the sailing world was dumbfounded. The boat and five people on board, all well-known in the sailing world, completely vanished. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 6, 2023 Dreaming in Spanish Sara Alvarado Sara Alvarado tells the story of growing up in Madison, studying Spanish, and escaping alcoholism, substance abuse, men, and sexual assault by moving to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Listen to Episode Buy Book March 21, 2023 The Field Victoria Garza Victoria Garza begins her poetic memoir with her ten-year-old self learning that her little sister and cousin have died in a car accident. She painstakingly recalls lovely moments with her sister as they faced their parents’ divorce, their new lives surrounded by family members, their Mexican American culture and celebrations. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 4, 2023 The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home S.L. Wisenberg As a child, S. L. Wisenberg worried about being outside, not being able to breathe, and Nazis coming through the window of her Houston home. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 22, 2022 Hysterical Elissa Bassist For two years author Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical specialists for pain that none of them managed to diagnose or resolve. Some of their treatments led to other medical problems but never relief. Then an acupuncturist suggested that she simply needed to take control of her voice, and Bassist was shocked when it worked. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 1, 2022 Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman Eileen Pollack Eileen Pollack covers her life in snippets or by delving into history, but the overall picture is of an extremely talented writer, a brilliant woman with a degree in physics and a long list of respected publications who is still somewhat bewildered to find herself alone. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 27, 2021 The Thin Ledge Daniel Shapiro Daniel Shapiro was a successful attorney in his early forties when his wife, Susan, suffered a brain bleed and a diagnosis that her future was uncertain. Stunned, and with three young children, the couple made the most of the few years that followed, before a massive second hemorrhage changed everything. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Explore engaging author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb. Discover diverse author interviews in NBN Podcast Episodes. Tune in now! NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb September 8, 2026 Vanishing Point Ellen Prentiss Campbell Beginning in the 1880s and spanning three generations through the 1980s, Vanishing Point (Apprentice House Press, 2026) explores the life and family of Pennsylvania artist George Hetzel and his large, complex family. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 18, 2026 All We Hide Robyn Gigl After Lauren Kelly transitions to female, her bosses in a small-town District Attorney’s Office do whatever they can to push her into retirement. Now stuck in the Homicide Cold Case unit, she investigates the 20-year-old murder of a trans sex worker whom she knew in high school. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 28, 2026 Haggard House Elisabeth Rhoads It’s the 19th century, and a village in northern Michigan is the setting for Adam Bolton’s strange, decrepit house, called Haggard House by the community. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 21, 2026 And The Ancestors Sing Radha Lin Chaddah Starting in the late 1970s, three women navigate post-Cultural Revolution China. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Dive into captivating mystery author interviews with G. P. Gottlieb on NBN Podcast Episodes. Uncover the secrets behind mystery author interviews. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Mystery August 18, 2026 All We Hide Robyn Gigl After Lauren Kelly transitions to female, her bosses in a small-town District Attorney’s Office do whatever they can to push her into retirement. Now stuck in the Homicide Cold Case unit, she investigates the 20-year-old murder of a trans sex worker whom she knew in high school. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book Fun City Heist Michael Kardos Mo Melnick has perfect pitch, which didn’t help him in his career as a drummer, but he used to be in a rock band and now his job is sitting on the Jersey Shore renting out chairs and beach umbrellas. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 14, 2025 Violent Seed Mary Price Birk Lady Anne is in the Cotswolds with her 8-month-old son, there to restore a famous walled garden. The magnificent home has been hosting a television cooking special over the summer, and Anne’s husband, Lord Terrence Reid, is there to enjoy a “Summer of Chefs” week with his wife and baby son. Listen to Episode Buy Book May 29, 2025 River Gold Jeff Nania In River Gold (Feet Wet Writing, 2025) Sheriff John Cabrelli is pulled into a murder investigation after a nationally known Great Lakes historian is robbed of his briefcase and shot in the leg. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 29, 2025 Hall of Mirrors John Copenhaver Hall of Mirrors (Pegasus Crime 2025) was selected as a New York Times Crime Novel of the Year. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 11, 2025 We Would Never Tova Mirvis Hailey Gelman just learned that her soon-to-be ex-husband was murdered in his home. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 1, 2025 The Drowning Game Barbara Nickless Sisters Nadia and Cass are heirs to a company that builds yachts for the super wealthy, and both are excited about a commission that will introduce them to the huge Asian market. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 24, 2024 The Case of the Missing Maid Rob Osler Set in 1898, Harriet Morrow is 21, supports her 16-year-old brother, and has been accepted as the first female detective at the Prescott Agency. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 1, 2024 Anyone But Her Cynthia Swanson In 1979 during her freshman year at Denver East High School in 1979, Suzanne’s mother was murdered by an armed robber while working in her record store. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

Dive into NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb for engaging dystopian author interviews. Discover unique insights from dystopian author interviews. NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Dystopian Fiction 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book 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. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 12, 2024 Next Stop Benjamin Resnick Today I talked to Benjamin Resnick about his novel Next Stop (Simon and Schuster, 2024) Listen to Episode Buy Book May 14, 2024 The Truth Against the World David Corbett The Truth Against the World (Square Tire Books, 2023) is a brilliant literary fantasy about a divided, dystopian America on the verge of war. Shane, a former Irish combat soldier with a murky past, wants to save his young friend Georgie O’Halloran, who turned his stories of Celtic history and folklore into a beautifully illustrated book. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 31, 2019 Pigs Johanna Stoberock In her new novel Pigs, Johanna Stoberock has written a lyrical fable about an island that receives all the world’s garbage. That garbage, both physical and psychological in the forms of dreams and memories, is consumed by six enormous, voracious pigs. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 19, 2022 This Place That Place Nandita Dinesh A nameless young woman from This Place, and a nameless young man from That Place are stuck together when That Place, the occupying force, imposes another curfew on This Place. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

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After Lauren Kelly transitions to female, her bosses in a small-town District Attorney’s Office do whatever they can to push her into retirement. Now stuck in the Homicide Cold Case unit, she investigates the 20-year-old murder of a trans sex worker whom she knew in high school. < Back All We Hide Robyn Gigl August 18, 2026 In All We Hide (Soho Crime 2026), after Lauren Kelly transitions to female in a small-town District Attorney’s Office, her bosses do whatever they can to push her into retirement. Now stuck in the Homicide Cold Case unit, she investigates the 20-year-old murder of a trans sex-worker whom she knew in high school. Already grappling with a teenage daughter, an ex-wife she still loves, and her father, a former cop struggling with Alzheimer’s, Lauren discovers evidence of a cover up. She’s stunned to find troubling connections to her family, calls her famous film star brother for support, and assembles a team. Someone is definitely trying to stop her. Robyn Gigl is an attorney and the author of the critically acclaimed Erin McCabe Legal Thrillers, which include: Survivor’s Guilt , named one of the 100 best Mystery/Thriller Books of All Time by TIME Magazine, and winner of the Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing; By Way of Sorrow , selected by CrimeReads as one of the best crime novels of the year; Remain Silent , a Joseph Hansen Award nominee; and Nothing but the Truth , named one of the best crime novels of 2024 by the New York Times . When she's not writing, practicing law or hanging out with her granddaughters, she loves to go for a jog along the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore. Listen to Episode Buy Book Previous Next

< Back POUNDED LAUNCH! G. P. Gottlieb Mar 16, 2027 Book #4 in the Whipped & Sipped Mystery Series Chicago café owner Alene Baron investigates when her friend's husband and father fall mysteriously ill, uncovering family dysfunction, infidelity, and murder. Gottlieb once again creates that rare blend of cozy familiarity and edge‑of‑your‑seat tension—the kind that makes you feel like you’re right at home with old friends even as the stakes climb higher with every chapter. Laurie Buchanan, author of the Sean McPherson crime thriller novels When a teenage sleepover at the Horvats’ house is interrupted by a three-a.m. medical emergency, Alene—owner of the Whipped and Sipped Café—and her cop boyfriend, Frank, are pulled into a troubling mystery involving friends and family. As suspicion spreads, the Whipped and Sipped becomes the gathering place where secrets surface, old wounds reopen, and the truth slowly emerges. Kathleen Kaska, author of the Sydney Lockhart Mysteries In Pounded, G.P. Gottlieb beautifully crafts an emotionally rich and nuanced portrait of a community facing crisis. At its center is Alene Baron, proprietress of the Whipped and Sipped cafe, and the steady, compassionate heart of this cozy mystery in which long-buried family tensions resurface, and loyalties are tested. Marjorie McCown, Author of the Hollywood Mysteries Previous Next

It’s the 19th century, and a village in northern Michigan is the setting for Adam Bolton’s strange, decrepit house, called Haggard House by the community. < Back Haggard House Elisabeth Rhoads July 28, 2026 It’s the 19th century, and a village in northern Michigan is the setting for Adam Bolton’s strange, decrepit house, called Haggard House by the community. He’s eleven, and his strictly religious mother only allows him to attend the village school after he promises not to be friendly with the other children. They’re heathens, she tells him. Adam builds an imaginary house in his mind, so when he meets a little girl who likes him, he can imagine her there. His father is a respected carpenter who leads a sad life because of Adam’s over-pious, angry and bitter mother. As a young man Adam escapes for a few years and doesn’t learn of his father’s murder until he returns. And when he goes against his mother’s wishes to marry the woman he loves, everyone pays a price in this well-written tale of madness and piety. Elisabeth Rhoads is the Vice-President of the second largest branch of the California Writers Club—Orange County. Since 2021, she has been a volunteer juror for the Scholastic Writing Awards. She holds her BA in Theatre and has recently been accepted into Chapman University’s Creative Writing MFA program, starting in Fall of 2026. Originally from Michigan, she spent two summers working on Mackinac Island, which only allows transport by horse and carriage, foot, or bicycle. Her time on this history-soaked island deeply influenced her, and has inspired many stories, including, in part, Haggard House (Bodger Books, 2025)—and is featured briefly in the novel. She is the author of one novel and has begun a short story series on her Substack, in which she writes a new story each month, based on subscriber prompts. Now living in California with her husband, she enjoys learning Japanese, fermenting foods of all types—although mainly kombucha—and pretends to enjoy exercise-related activities, such as kayaking and running. As someone who grew up within a strict, religious home, her writing reflects the Victorian influences that made up a large part of her family’s reading habits, such as Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters, and Edgar Allen Poe. She hopes that modern readers will find much to connect with, as these old-world literary influences combine with her now much broader view of the world. Listen to Episode Buy Book Previous Next