Friday, January 27, 2012
Recent Interviews:
01/25/12		Agent 6	Tom Rob Smith	Listen
01/23/12		Cracked	K.M. Walton	Listen
01/18/12		Breaking Point	Dana Haynes	Listen
12/30/11		Down the Darkest Road	Tami Hoag	Listen
12/20/11		The Batman Files	Matthew Manning	Listen
12/18/11		Agatha Christie's Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks	John Curran	Listen
12/18/11		When She Woke	Hillary Jordan	Listen
12/04/11		Murder Season	Robert Ellis	Listen
12/03/11		The Drop	Michael Connelly	Listen
11/15/11		Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever	Jeff Kinney	Listen
11/12/11		The Importance of Being Ernie:  From My Three Sons to Mad Men, a Hollywood Survivor Tells All	Barry Livingston	Listen
11/10/11		V is for Vengeance	Sue Grafton	Listen
11/10/11		The House of Silk - A Sherlock Holmes Novel	Anthony Horowitz	Listen
Featured book:
	The Louvre: All the Paintings - Erich Lessing	THE LOUVRE: ALL THE PAINTINGS  The perfect gift for the holidays.  745 pages total, all of the paintings from The Louvre, along with descriptions of the paintings and information about the painters themselves.  What a breathtaking book!  The perfect gift for the art lover - and they are all in beautiful color.  I challenge you not to keep opening this book to look at these wonderful paintings.  Makes me want to go straight to France to see them all.  AND, it also comes with a DVD, with tours through which you can also browse the paintings by title, date, material, location and more.  This is one spectacular book!  Also, the book is priced at $75.00, which is great considering what you get.  The DVD alone is worth 20 or 30 dollars.  What a gem this is, and the smell of it is wonderful  What a beautiful cover!  Every Christmas season they come out with a gem of a book, and this is the great one for this year.  Published by Black Dog and Leventhal, you can find this book in most bookstores all over the country.  This is surely the book to get for the holidays.  You'll enjoy looking at it for days on end!
Previous Interviews:
10/04/11		A Mortal Terror: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery	James R. Benn	Listen
09/17/11		Kill Me If You Can	Marshall Karp	Listen
09/17/11		Trick of the Dark	Val McDermid	Listen
09/17/11		Killed at the Whim of a Hat	Colin Cotterill	Listen
09/10/11		Spycatcher	Matthew Dunn	Listen
08/31/11		You Only Rock Once: My Life in Music	Jerry Blavat	Listen
08/24/11		Creep: A Thriller of Deadly Attraction	Jennifer Hillier	Listen
Featured books:
	The Hidden Child and The Gallows Bird - Camilla Lackberg	If you haven't experienced CAMILLA LACKBERG, you are missing out big time!  This is the most wonderful, exciting, suspenseful series I have read in a long time.  The talent this woman has is incredible!  The translations are superb; the characters come to life and will stay with you for a long time.  To think only two are available in America is a crime in itself!  Do yourself a favor - read ICE PRINCESS, THE PREACHER, and THE STONE CUTTER, then come to these two brilliant books. THE HIDDEN CHILD will haunt you for a long time.  I am haunted by it now!  The talent CAMILLA LACKBERG has is incredible, and the thought of Books 6 and 7, which are available in Sweden and select other countries now (with 8 coming in September) are definitely on my MUST READ list, and should be on yours, too.  BRILLIANT is all I can say about this author, and the thought of more thrills me to no end!  Read this series now...
Featured Interviews:
08/01/11		I'm Just Sayin'!: Three Deaths, Seven Husbands, and a Clone! My Life as a Daytime Diva	Kim Zimmer	Listen
07/27/11		The Accident	Linwood Barclay	Listen
07/18/11		The Devil Colony	James Rollins	Listen
07/13/11		Long Gone	Alafair Burke	Listen
07/07/11		Shut Your Eyes Tight	John Verdon	Listen
06/25/11		Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading	Nina Sankovitch	Listen
06/14/11		Hit List	Laurell K Hamilton	Listen to this wonderful interview!
06/10/11		The Life Plan: How Any Man Can Achieve Lasting Health, Great Sex, and a Stronger, Leaner Body	Jeffry S Life, MD PhD	Listen
06/07/11		Trader of Secrets	Steve Martini	Listen
06/04/11		Bright Light	Dee Wallace	Listen
06/01/11		The Sixth Man	David Baldacci	Listen
05/26/11		A Time for Patriots	Dale Brown	Listen
05/25/11		The Preacher	Camilla Läckberg	Listen
05/11/11		Save Me	Lisa Scottoline	Listen
04/26/11		Shane Victorino: The Flyin' Hawaiin	Alan Maimon	Listen
04/21/11		Greatness and Goodness: Barbaro and His Legacy	Alex Brown	Listen
04/19/11		The National Parks: Our American Landscape	Ian Shive	Listen
04/19/11		Eve	Iris Johansen	Listen
04/17/11		56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports	Kostya Kennedy	Listen
04/12/11		Lessons from the Mountain: What I Learned from Erin Walton	Mary McDonough	Listen
Featured book:
	I'll Walk Alone - Mary Higgins Clark	Spring is here, and so is the newest book by the Queen of Mystery, MARY HIGGINS CLARK. What makes her books so great is her superb ability to get you so caught up in the story and characters; and this one, I'LL WALK ALONE, is no exception. Alexandra Moreland, whose son went missing 2 years ago, has never quite recovered from that event. The ability to tell a good story is hard, but this story is in the hands of an expert storyteller - one who has written over 30 books. Who is the woman who walks into the church and wants to confess? Who is the person who is following her? Is Alexandra's son dead? Missing? What is going on? You are invited to guess along with others what is really going on. And who is the tenant in the farmhouse, really? What would you do if someone used your credit cards? Or did she use them herself and forget? This is a wonderfully fun book to read - but don't read it late at night or you will be up all night. You are in the hands of a master here, and one of the nicest authors on the planet I know. I've met her on numerous occasions. There are 2 certain things come APRIL: taxes and a new MARY HIGGINS CLARK novel... stick with this novel, and this author... a fun ride, and a fascinating story. AND my interview with Ms. Clark is posted here:  Listen
Recently featured interviews:
03/30/11		The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches	Zack Hample	Listen
03/24/11		A Red Herring Without Mustard	Alan Bradley	Listen
03/20/11		Lucifer's Tears	James Thompson	Listen
03/16/11		Gideon's Sword	Lincoln Child	Listen
03/15/11		Life Organizer: The Essential Record Keeper and Estate Planner	Nancy Randolph Greenway	Listen
03/09/11		Now You See Her	Joy Fielding	Listen
02/24/11		Delirious	Daniel Palmer	Listen
02/16/11		How Dare You Say How Dare Me!	Pat Cooper	Listen
02/13/11		The Impaler	Gregory Funaro	Listen
02/09/11		Blood of the Rose	Kate Pearce	Listen
01/20/11		The Lost Encyclopedia	Tara Bennett	Listen
01/19/11		The Sherlockian	Graham Moore	Listen
01/17/11		Damage	John Lescroart	Listen
01/11/11		Gideon's War: A Novel	Howard Gordon	Listen
01/10/11		A Lonely Death:  An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery	Charles and Caroline Todd	Listen
12/30/10		Book Lust to Go	Nancy Pearl	Listen
12/28/10		Secrets to the Grave	Tami Hoag	Listen
12/13/10		Midnight Guardians	Jonathon King	Listen
12/09/10		Dead Like You	Peter James	Listen
Previously featured books:
	The Scarpetta Factor - Patricia Cornwell	SCARPETTA is back for Number 17.  I love reading these books, and really get into the characters.  These are some of the more neurotic, yet interesting characters in crime fiction - and I love the way the books are going recently.  Very interesting book; a tad long, but try to put it down once you start it.  You must know how it will end... enjoy!
	Port Mortuary - Patricia Cornwell	WOW... this one is really something else!  Scarpetta is back in 1st person, and Cornwell could not be happier - and this book is reminiscent of the older SCARPETTA novels.  I love this book, all 496 pages.  I just love these characters, and the story is very, very interesting.  You are so caught up in the story, you don't even mind the length.  I hope CORNWELL keeps on this path, and I can hardly wait for the next one!  5 STARS ON THIS ONE...
Previously featured interviews:
12/01/10		How to Shop for Free: Shopping Secrets for Smart Women Who Love to Get Something for Nothing	Kathy Spencer	Listen
11/25/10		The Emperor's Tomb	Steve Berry	Listen
11/18/10		Killing Me Softly: My Life in Music	Charles Fox	Listen
11/16/10		The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick	Gene Stone	Listen
11/14/10		Death Notice	Todd Ritter	Listen
10/31/10		Bury Your Dead	Louise Penny	Listen
10/25/10		Comebacks at Work: Using Conversation to Master Confrontation	Kathleen Kelley Reardon, PhD	Listen
10/21/10		My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman	Lisa Scottoline / Francesca Scottoline Serritella	Listen
10/19/10		Assholes Finish First	Tucker Max	Listen
10/11/10		Holy Ghosts: Or How a (Not-So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night	Gary Jansen	Listen
10/05/10		I Love Lucy: Celebrating 50 Years of Love and Laughter	Elisabeth Edwards	Listen
09/29/10		How to Read a Person Like a Book	Gabriel Grayson	Listen
09/24/10		101 Ways to Save Money on Health Care	Cynthia J Koelker, MD	Listen
Featured DVD Set:
	Ellery Queen Mysteries	One of my favorite TV shows from the 1970's; now you can watch it at home in the comfort of your living room. All 22 episodes in one package, and are they fun! Try to figure out whodunit yourself, and it is fun. There is usually one or more scenes that give it away. The pilot episode is especially intriguing, with an ending that makes you smack your head thinking, why didn't I see that? Very clever mysteries, very well-written, and famous actors like CESAR ROMERO, DAVID DOYLE, JOAN COLLINS and many more. Pay particular attention to an episode that involves Alice in Wonderland. This one blows me away when I watch it. Enjoy, enjoy...
Archived interviews:
09/18/10		Panic Zone	Rick Mofina	Listen
09/15/10		Brady, Brady, Brady: The Complete Story of The Brady Bunch as Told by the Father/Son Team who Really Know	Lloyd J. Schwartz	Listen
09/13/10		Bill Warrington's Last Chance	James King	Listen
09/06/10		Mourn the Living	Henry Perez	Listen
08/30/10		The Hanging Tree	Bryan Gruley	Listen
08/26/10		Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2011: The Complete Guide to Movies on VHS, DVD, and Hi-def Formats	Jim Craddock	Listen
08/16/10		Hangman: A Decker/Lazarus Novel	Faye Kellerman	Listen
08/10/10		Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated	Alison Arngrim	Listen
08/05/10		Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter	Randy Schmidt	Listen
07/29/10		Joey Green's Cleaning Magic: 2,336 Ingenious Cleanups Using Brand-Name Products	Joey Green	Listen
07/26/10		Ice Cold: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel	Tess Gerritsen	Listen
07/20/10		Never Wave Goodbye: A Novel of Suspense	Doug Magee	Listen
07/18/10		Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt	Kenneth McKenzie and Todd Harra	Listen
07/13/10		Live to Tell	Lisa Gardner	Listen
07/09/10		Pray for Silence: A Thriller	Linda Castillo	Listen
06/30/10		The Burning Wire	Jeffery Deaver	Listen
06/29/10		The Alchemy of Murder	Carol McCleary	Listen
06/28/10		Broken	Karin Slaughter	Listen
06/27/10		Vicious	Kevin O'Brien	Listen
06/24/10		Walking Papers: The Accident that Changed My Life, and the Business that Got Me Back on My Feet	Francesco Clark	Listen
06/20/10		The Wild Zone	Joy Fielding	Listen
06/17/10		The Days of our Lives: The True Story of One Family's Dream and the Untold History of Days of our Lives	Ken Corday	Listen
Previously featured books:
	Storm Prey	The 20th book in the so far so great Lucas Davenport PREY series by John Sandford, and, like the others, this one does not disappoint. Violence all over the place, and all interspersed with a fascinating twin baby separation operation... what fun this book is! John Sandford manages to pull off yet another in his wonderful PREY series, and he really knows how to tell a story. One of the few series that I continue to read yearly, and LOVE, and never get tired of reading... Wonderful!
	Star Wars: A Scanimation Book: Iconic Scenes from a Galaxy Far, Far Away...	11 iconic scenes from Star Wars are included in this very cool book from Workman Publishing. As you move the book, the scene happens before your eyes, and it is cool - a sure collectible, available at bookstores all over the place. Take a look at this one, you will want to add it to your collection.
More Archived interviews:
06/07/10		Supreme Justice	Phillip Margolin	Listen
06/02/10		Batting Stance Guy: A Love Letter to Baseball	Gar Ryness	Listen
05/28/10		Junkyard Dogs	Craig Johnson	Listen
05/27/10		Rolling Thunder	Chris Grabenstein	Listen
05/11/10		This Body of Death	Elizabeth George	Listen
05/10/10		A Curtain Falls	Stefanie Pintoff	Listen
04/26/10		Harry the K: The Remarkable Life of Harry Kalas	Randy Miller	Listen
04/24/10		The 24th Letter	Tom Lowe	Listen
Questions, interview requests, suggestions - email me at david@davidsbooktalk.com.
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