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Land Of Shadows By Rachel Howzell Hall chats with Dr. Alvin

Rachel Howzell Hall Click Here To Listen Along the ever-changing border of gentrifying Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old Monique Darson is found dead at a condominium construction site, hanging in the closet of an unfinished unit. Homicide detective Elouise “Lou” Norton’s new partner, Colin Taggert, fresh from the comparatively bucolic Colorado Springs police department, assumes it’s a teenage suicide. Lou isn’t buying the easy explanation. For one thing, the condo site is owned by Napoleon Crase, a self-made millionaire. . .and the man who may have murdered Lou's missing sister, Tori, thirty years ago. As Lou investigates the death of Monique Darson, she uncovers undeniable links between the two cases. But her department is skeptical. Lou is [...]

By |June 11th, 2014|African Americans, Crime, Fiction, Women|Comments Off on Land Of Shadows By Rachel Howzell Hall chats with Dr. Alvin
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Mimi Malloy, At Last! By Julia MacDonnell chats with Dr. Alvin

Julia MacDonnell Click Here To Listen   Meet Mimi Malloy: A daughter of the Great Depression, Mimi was born into an Irish-Catholic brood of seven, and she has done her best to raise six beautiful daughters of her own. Now they’re grown, and Mimi, a divorcée, is unexpectedly retired. But she takes solace in the comforts of her new life: her apartment in the heart of Quincy, the occasional True Blue cigarette, and evenings with Frank Sinatra on the stereo and a highball in her hand. Yet her phone is arguably the busiest in greater Boston—it rings “Day In, Day Out,” as Ol’ Blue Eyes would say. Her surviving sisters love to gab about their [...]

By |June 10th, 2014|Fiction, Women|Comments Off on Mimi Malloy, At Last! By Julia MacDonnell chats with Dr. Alvin
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Say What You Will By Cammie McGovern chats with Dr. Alvin

Cammie McGovern Click Here To Listen   I want someone who will talk to me honestly about things. You're the only person who ever has. Maybe you don't know this, but when you're disabled almost no one tells you the truth. They feel too awkward because the truth seems too sad, I guess. You were very brave to walk up to the crippled girl and say, essentially, wipe that sunny expression off your face and look at reality. That's what I want you to do next year. Tell me the truth. That's all. Amy and Matthew didn't know each other, really. They weren't friends. Matthew remembered her, sure, but he remembered a lot of people [...]

By |June 10th, 2014|Disabilities, Fiction|Comments Off on Say What You Will By Cammie McGovern chats with Dr. Alvin
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All Day And A Night By Alafair Burke chats with Dr. Alvin

Alafair Burke   Click Here To Listen A new murder case with ties to a convicted serial killer leads Detective Ellie Hatcher into a twisting investigation with explosive and deadly results in this superb mystery from the “terrific web spinner” (Entertainment Weekly) Alafair Burke. When psychotherapist Helen Brunswick is murdered in her Park Slope office, the entire city suspects her estranged husband—until the District Attorney’s office receives an anonymous letter. The letter’s author knows a chilling detail that police have kept secret: the victim’s bones were broken after she was killed. Her injuries were eerily similar to the signature used twenty years earlier by Anthony Amaro, a serial killer serving a life sentence for his [...]

By |June 9th, 2014|Crime, Fiction|Comments Off on All Day And A Night By Alafair Burke chats with Dr. Alvin
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Target America By Scott McEwen chats with Dr. Alvin

Scott McEwen-Target America Click Here To Listen From the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Sniper comes a heart-pounding military thriller in which the fabled Special Ops unit is activated to stop a group of terrorists from launching “suitcase” nukes somewhere in America. When Chechen terrorists manage to smuggle a Cold War–era Russian nuke across the Mexican-American border, the President is forced to reactivate the only unit capable of stopping them: Navy SEAL sniper Gil Shannon and his brash team of SEALs and Delta Force fighters. First introduced in Sniper Elite: One-Way Trip, hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “meaty thriller” with “snappy dialogue and well-timed humor,” Shannon and his team were [...]

By |June 9th, 2014|Fiction, Military, War|Comments Off on Target America By Scott McEwen chats with Dr. Alvin
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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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A Long Time Gone By Karen White chats with Dr. Alvin

Karen White Click Here To Listen I want someone who will talk to me honestly about things. You're the only person who ever has. Maybe you don't know this, but when you're disabled almost no one tells you the truth. They feel too awkward because the truth seems too sad, I guess. You were very brave to walk up to the crippled girl and say, essentially, wipe that sunny expression off your face and look at reality. That's what I want you to do next year. Tell me the truth. That's all. Amy and Matthew didn't know each other, really. They weren't friends. Matthew remembered her, sure, but he remembered a lot of people from [...]

By |June 9th, 2014|Fiction, Women|Comments Off on A Long Time Gone By Karen White chats with Dr. Alvin
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Ruby: A Novel By Cynthia Bond chats with Dr. Alvin

Cynthia Bond Click Here To Listen Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,” has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the city--the darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the Village--all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby Bell finds [...]

By |June 6th, 2014|Fiction, Women|Comments Off on Ruby: A Novel By Cynthia Bond chats with Dr. Alvin
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Everything To Lose By Andrew Gross chats with Dr. Alvin

Andrew Gross-Everything To Lose Click Here To Listen A determined mother becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty-year-old secret buried in this blistering thriller, set during the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, from Andrew Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of 15 Seconds and No Way Back While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Cantor, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her to care for her son who has Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident when a deer suddenly darts in front of the car ahead of her. The driver careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Rushing to help, she discovers the car [...]

By |June 6th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on Everything To Lose By Andrew Gross chats with Dr. Alvin
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Bridge To Haven By Francine Rivers chats with Dr. Alvin

Francine Rivers Click Here To Listen Now actress Lena Scott has got what she's always wanted: She's the hottest young star in Tinsel Town. But something is drastically wrong: She now realizes that she has sacrificed far too much and longs to retreat to the small town where long ago a kindly local minister found her abandoned under a bridge. With its spiritual message, Francine Rivers' new novel about an emerging Hollywood legend reclaiming her integrity will touch all readers who let it into their hearts.

By |June 5th, 2014|Fiction, Gospel|Comments Off on Bridge To Haven By Francine Rivers chats with Dr. Alvin
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