This Sunday, V chats with Mike Vance about his book series "Duckworth Historical Crime"

latest book

"A Convenient Scapegoat (Duckworth Historical Crime Book 2)"

Criminal defense attorney J.B. Duckworth is accustomed to clients ready to aid in their own defense, but Louie Swearingen can recall nothing about the night of the murder for which he stands accused. The eyewitness to the crime is adamant and unwavering. As more killings unfold around them, things look bleak for the defendant.

One night a secret cabal of local elites hands Duckworth a seemingly easy way out. The result, though, would send another innocent man to the gallows. Is his first duty to his client or to the ethical grounding of his profession? It’s not an easy question for a man with a history of relying on moral fluidity.

On this special Thursday episode, V chats with Iris March about her "Succulent Sleuth Series".

The latest in the series "Twinkling Tree Trouble: A Succulent Sleuth Mini Mystery (Succulent Sleuth Series Book 4)"

A truckload of Christmas trees. Mysterious string lights. A most festive secret.

It’s the holiday season, and Molly Green, the manager of Patty’s Plant Place, is busy selling fragrant firs, teaching holiday crafting workshops, and eating all the holiday desserts. But when mysterious string lights appear on Christmas trees for sale at the garden center, she can’t help but wonder who snuck through the fence to create such festive mischief.

With the help of her twin sister May and their quirky crew of employees, Molly sets out to solve this cheerful mystery. Will she untangle the mystery of the twinkling lights before snow blankets the ground—or will the secret remain hidden among the Christmas trees?

On this special Tuesday episode, V chats with Lew Paper about his book "Legacy of Lies: An Historical Thriller".

As we mark the 50th anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance on that sultry afternoon in July 1975, Lew Paper has crafted a fast-paced historical thriller which raises new questions about the reasons for the abduction.

The book commences with a startling premise: What if a former FBI special agent-turned-private investigator had been hired to trail Hoffa in that summer of 1975 and saw him get in a car with three other men, all of whom the investigator knew from his prior experience with the FBI were in the Mafia? Would that investigator tell the FBI what he knew when he later learned Hoffa was reported missing?

Sam Silver, the former FBI special agent, is that investigator. But he is reluctant to contact the FBI. From his prior experience with the FBI, Silver knows all about the Mafia's practice of eliminating witnesses to its crimes. Sam's only child, a high school student, just lost his mother (and Silver's wife) to cancer, and Sam cannot bear the thought of leaving his son without any parent.

Fast forward eleven years. Sam's son, now a young lawyer in Washington, DC, embarks on an odyssey to determine whether his father's untimely death on a sailboat ten years earlier was, as the coroner determined, an accident. Or was it something more sinister?

In a story filled with unexpected twists and turns, Legacy of Lies brings into focus the forces surrounding Hoffa's disappearance: Bobby Kennedy's vendetta against Hoffa when he was Attorney General, President Richard Nixon's bid for re-election in 1972, and, last but not least, the Mafia.