In Jason Pinter's second novel in the Rachel Marin thriller series, A STRANGER AT THE DOOR, Pinter has given Rachel a unique skill set: she has an uncanny ability to see clues that crime scene investigators may miss, making her a much-needed asset by her town’s understaffed homicide detectives, including her love interest, John Serrano.

She’s also a lethal killer.

This gives her leeway to do things that may be considered skirting the law.

It also makes her one kick-ass helicopter mom.

When danger lands on Rachel’s doorstep with the threat of harming her young family, she has a vested interest in solving the heinous murder of a local high school teacher, Matthew Linklater—he was brutally murdered before his home was set afire.

Solving the beloved teacher’s death becomes imperative, especially when it turns out that some of her son Eric’s classmates may be involved.

Jason and I discuss how he came up with the plot, and how being a parent helped him create the empathy needed to let loose the Tiger Mom in his intrepid protagonist.

A STRANGER AT THE DOOR is in Amazon. You can also purchase it at your local bookstore.

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In New York Times best-selling Author Eileen Goudge’s latest novel, All THEY NEED TO KNOW, Kyra, an abused wife of a rich, powerful man goes on the run, ending up across the country in a small California town where she hopes to hide out. Instead, she is embraced by the locals, who offer friendship, support, and acceptance—no questions asked. Inevitably, though, terror comes knocking. Is Kyra strong enough to confront it?

This novel is especially compelling because it’s based on incidents that happened to Eileen. In our very candid conversation, she shows that a fully-lived life isn’t just fodder for fiction, but the greatest catalyst for exorcizing the demons of one’s past.

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In THE WHISPER SISTER, Jennifer S. Brown delivers an atmospheric coming-of-age story set in Prohibition-era New York, tracing one immigrant family’s fortunes and a young girl’s journey from the schoolyard to the speakeasy.

The streets of New York in 1920 are most certainly not paved with gold, as Minnie Soffer learns when she arrives at Ellis Island. Her father, who left Ukraine when Minnie was a toddler, feels like a stranger. She sleeps on a mattress on the kitchen floor, and she understands nothing at school. They came to America for this?

When her father, Ike, opens his own soda shop, stability and citizenship seem within reach. But the soda shop is not what it seems; it’s a front for Ike’s real moneymaker: a speakeasy.

When tragedy strikes the Soffers, Minnie has no choice but to take over the bar. She’s determined to make the speakeasy a success despite the risks it brings to herself, her family, and her freedom.

At what price does the American dream come true?

Minnie won’t stop until she finds out.

Check out Jennifer S. Brown’s THE WHISPER SISTER on Amazon and in other bookstores.

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This has been a copyrighted episode of Author Provocateur with Josie Brown.

AI was not used in the creation of this podcast.

(c) 2024 Josie Brown.