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FaceOff By Heather Graham chats with Dr. Alvin

Heather Graham Click Here To Listen   Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci and including stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and more, this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide! In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers have paired their series characters—such as Harry Bosch, Jack Reacher, and Lincoln Rhyme—in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW). All of the contributors to FaceOff are ITW members and the stories feature these dynamic duos: · Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch in “Red Eye,” by Dennis Lehane and [...]

By |June 9th, 2014|Crime, Fiction|Comments Off on FaceOff By Heather Graham chats with Dr. Alvin
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The White Boy Confessions By Marcus Valdespino chats with Dr. Alvin

Marcus Valdespino   Click Here To Listen The White Boy Confessions is the powerful autobiography of Marcus Valdespino and deals with gang life and violence in San Antonio and such controversial subjects as race relations, poverty, and interracial crime. The first 29 years of Valdespino's was compelling and tragic. He witnessed his father's drug dealing to high profile people and Marcus, unfortunately followed in his footsteps. Valdespino's story shows the worst of humanity and is chilling in its depiction of sex and violence and heartfelt, poignant and sad in its betrayal of the rite of passage of a young person growing up in this world. The White Boys Confessions is also extremely powerful in its [...]

By |June 9th, 2014|Biography, Crime, Law, Self-Help|Comments Off on The White Boy Confessions By Marcus Valdespino chats with Dr. Alvin
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Death At The Door By Carolyn Hart chats with Dr. Alvin

Carolyn Hart-Death At The Door Click Here To Listen   Annie Darling—owner of the mystery bookstore, Death on Demand—prefers fictional crimes as opposed to the real things. But in one tragic week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward’s Rock. First, a beloved doctor is found shot dead, seemingly by his own hand. Only days later, a local artist is arrested after his wife is found murdered, bludgeoned by her husband’s sculpting mallet. Convinced her brother did not commit suicide, the doctor’s sister turns to Annie and her husband, Max, for help. She has found a cryptic sketch her brother drew, linking him with the murdered woman. Did someone want them both [...]

By |June 3rd, 2014|Crime, Fiction|Comments Off on Death At The Door By Carolyn Hart chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Residue Years By Mitchell S. Jackson chats with Dr. Alvin

Mitchell Jackson 2 Click Here To Listen Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America’s whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the ’90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that’s nothing less than extraordinary. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. Grace is just out of a drug treatment program, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. Champ is trying to do right by his mom and younger [...]

By |May 30th, 2014|African Americans, Crime, Fiction, Law|Comments Off on The Residue Years By Mitchell S. Jackson chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Most Dangerous Animal Of All By Gary L. Stewart chats with Dr. Alvin

Gary Stewart Click Here To Listen Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. His quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world. Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart's decade-long hunt. While combing through government records and news reports and tracking down relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues—including forensic evidence—that conclusively identify his father as the Zodiac Killer, one of the most notorious and [...]

By |May 28th, 2014|Biography, Crime|Comments Off on The Most Dangerous Animal Of All By Gary L. Stewart chats with Dr. Alvin
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Suspicion By Joseph Finder chats with Dr. Alvin

Joseph Finder Click Here To Listen When single father Danny Goodman suddenly finds himself unable to afford the private school his teenage daughter adores, he has no one to turn to for financial support. In what seems like a stroke of brilliant luck, Danny meets Thomas Galvin, the father of his daughter’s new best friend, who also happens to be one of the wealthiest men in Boston. Galvin is aware of Danny’s situation and out of the blue offers a $50,000 loan to help Danny cover his daughter’s tuition. Uncomfortable but desperate, Danny takes the money, promising to pay Galvin back. What transpires is something Danny never imagined. The moment the money is wired into [...]

By |May 22nd, 2014|Crime, Fiction|Comments Off on Suspicion By Joseph Finder chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Skin Collector By Jeffery Deaver chats with Dr. Alvin

Jeffery Deaver-Skin Collector Click Here To Listen Live From Cincinnati, Ohio The killer's methods are terrifying. He stalks the basements and underground passageways of New York City. He tattoos his victims' flesh with cryptic messages, using a tattoo gun loaded with poison, resulting in an agonizing, painful death. When a connection is made to the Bone Collector-the serial killer who terrorized New York more than a decade ago-Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are immediately drawn into the case. Rhyme, Sachs, and the NYPD must race against time to answer the many questions the investigation uncovers: Whom will the killer attack next? What is the message behind the victims' tattoos? Does the killer's own inking--a fanged [...]

By |May 22nd, 2014|Crime, Fiction|Comments Off on The Skin Collector By Jeffery Deaver chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Devil’s Workshop By Alex Grecian chats with Dr. Alvin

Alex Grecian-Devil Click Here To Listen   London, 1890. Four vicious murderers have escaped from prison, part of a plan gone terribly wrong, and now it is up to Walter Day, Nevil Hammersmith, and the rest of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad to hunt down the convicts before the men can resume their bloody spree. But they might already be too late. The killers have retribution in mind, and one of them is heading straight toward a member of the Murder Squad, and his family. And that isn’t even the worst of it. During the escape, the killers have stumbled upon the location of another notorious murderer, one thought gone for good but now prepared to [...]

By |May 21st, 2014|Crime, Fiction|Comments Off on The Devil’s Workshop By Alex Grecian chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Big Fix: The Hunt For The Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer By Brett Forrest chats with Dr. Alvin

Brett Forrest Click Here To Listen Known as the "beautiful game," soccer is the world's most popular sport, crossing borders and language barriers to entertain billions. But underneath it all—the raucous fans in the stadiums; the beloved players; and FIFA, the international governing body with a membership of 209 national associations—is a scandal that threatens to make soccer the ugliest sport in the world. An underworld of international gambling rings, corrupt players and officials, and shadowy figures preys on the far-flung edges of the game, making match-fixing in soccer one of organized crime's new, profitable businesses. Now, for the first time, journalist Brett Forrest takes us inside the $700 billion international soccer betting market. In [...]

By |May 20th, 2014|Crime, Sports|Comments Off on The Big Fix: The Hunt For The Match-Fixers Bringing Down Soccer By Brett Forrest chats with Dr. Alvin
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U.S. Marshalls By Mike Earp chats with Dr. Alvin

Mike Earp Click Here To Listen Deputy U.S. Marshal: How often did you draw your gun? Retiring FBI Agent: Never. You? Deputy U.S. Marshal: Seven times before lunch. 123,006 Fugitives That's how many wanted men and women, each with an average of four felony convictions to his or her name, the U.S. Marshals Service tracked down and arrested in 2012. Of that number, 3,962 were charged with murder, most were violent career criminals, and all were on the run from the authorities. If you are a fugitive in America, your worst nightmare is a deputy U.S. marshal on your trail: each year the Marshals Service takes more criminals off the streets than every other federal [...]

By |May 15th, 2014|Biography, Crime, Law|Comments Off on U.S. Marshalls By Mike Earp chats with Dr. Alvin
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