The Joys of Binge Reading
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Dwight Holing – Modern Western Thrillers
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dwight Holing’s contemporary western thriller series starring Nick Drake owe their success to their readers, who are vocal in clamoring for the nex...
Janet Gover – Aussie Country Life
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Janet Gover’s fictional country town of Coorah Creek is Robyn Carr’s Virgin River set in The Outback – with the stories of love and loss, fligh...
Hazel Gaynor – Riviera Romance
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hazel Gaynor’s best-selling historical novels take famous events and look at how they affected the lives of the “little people.” Her most...
Melanie Benjamin – Best Selling Historicals
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Melanie Benjamin’s historic fiction successfully combines romance with thriller plots and famous real life heroines, so its perhaps not surprising ...
SW Hubbard – Twisty Domestic Thrillers
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SW Hubbard’s twisty edgy domestic thrillers are favorites with readers who also enjoy her complex characters and sly humor. Hi, I’m your host Jen...
Kate Alcott – Hollywood Stardust
22 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Alcott’s Hollywood novels take us inside the sparkle of the star system to reveal real people, from Clark Gable and Carole Lombard on the set ...
Laura Kamoie – My Dear Hamilton
16 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Kamoie hit No 1 in the Amazon best seller charts with her latest historical novel My Dear Hamilton on the week we talked – evidence of the su...
Scott Graham – Murder Mayhem & Mysticism
09 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Graham’s National Park mysteries combine murder, mayhem and mysticism in spectacular landscapes while embracing a keen awareness of environme...
Stephanie Parkyn – French Love & Obsession
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to The Joys of Binge Reading podcast. I’m your host, Jenny Wheeler, and here in New Zealand we’ve taken a month out for a summ...
Ian Austin – Undercover Cop Dan
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Austin’s under-cover cop Dan Calder is a man with a tendency for trouble – either creating it or falling into it… the protagonist in a crim...
Martin Walker – Bruno Police Chief
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Walker’s Bruno, the French police chief at the heart of his best-selling Perigord mystery series, is everyone’s ideal cop – as well as t...
Stephanie Barron – Controversial History
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Barron’s popular Jane Austen mysteries feature the famous novelist as a crime investigator and are so close to real life that Stephanie s...
Gill Paul – Famous Fabulous Lives
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist Gill Paul takes iconic women of the 20th century – from Wallis Simpson to Diana, Princess of Wales, from Jackie O to Maria Callas – and ...
Joanna Shupe – Gilded Age Romance
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joanna Shupe’s Gilded Age New York heroes are giving Regency Dukes a run for their money on romance best seller lists, making the age of the Astors...
Anna Willett – Nightmare Thrillers
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Willet writes nightmare thrillers it’s best not to read before bed – and that’s the way her readers love them. Hi there, I’m your host J...
Cassandra Clark – Abbess of Meaux Medievals
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Cassandra Clark publishes a new book in her Abbess of Meaux series, medievalists rejoice. The ten-book series was sparked by a dream, and it foc...
Jenny Wheeler – 100 Podcasts – and new book
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny: Welcome to the 100th episode of The Joys of Binge Reading podcast. Yes! We’ve reached 100 episodes. I can hardly believe it! Hi there. ...
Margaret Mizushima – K9 Mysteries
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tracking Game with Margaret Mizushima – a new K-9 police procedural Margaret Mizushima’s police-procedurals-with-heart mysteries feature K...
Fiona Davis – Big Apple Drama
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Critics rave about the unexpected and clever plot twists in Fiona Davis’s historical bestsellers, dual timeline stories set in the Big Apple...
Harriet Steel – British Raj mysteries
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Harriet Steel’s Inspector de Silva historical crime series takes us back to the exotic sights, sounds and smells of 1930s Ceylon under the British ...
Kirsten McKenzie – Time Travel Mysteries
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsten McKenzie’s time travel series The Old Curiosity Shop has been likened to ‘Antique Road Show Gone Viral’ – and that’s approp...
Ames Sheldon – Realizing Dreams
07 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ames Sheldon’s Second World War novels explore how war impacts family life long after the guns have stopped firing. Writing them realized a life lo...
Sara Rosett – Black Tie Murders
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Rosett’s High Society series features Olivia Belgrave, an impoverished ‘lady’ who solves upper crust scandals in a fabulous 1920’...
Tony Park – African Adventure
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Park’s 17 African thrillers are international best-sellers wrapping high octane action set against a background of safari park politics and wi...
Renee Rosen – Park Avenue Summer
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Renee Rosen’s latest book has been described as “Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada,” and explores Helen Gurley Brown’s first brazen year as...
Georgina Clarke – Brave & Bawdy
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Georgina Clarke’s heroine Lizzie Hardwick trades her life in a bawdy house to go under cover in a Drury Lane theatre in her latest 18th century mys...
Marilyn Todd – Crime Scene Mysteries
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Marilyn Todd’s latest Victorian thriller introduces England’s first crime scene photographer, Julia McAllister, and offers readers the same racy ...
Leslie Karst – Sally Solari culinary mysteries
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Leslie Karst’s Sally Solari foodie mystery series are spiced just right to tempt readers back for second helpings, with razor sharp plotting,...
Tammy Robinson – Heart-Breaker
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tammy Robinson’s emotional stories are heart-warming and heart-breaking in equal measure and will appeal to readers of Jojo Moyes and Nicholas Spar...
Alissa Callen – Bright Light in Darkness
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alissa Callen’s wide-open-space romances – whether set in the Australian outback or Montana mountains – give a bright lift to the darkest day. ...
Danielle Hawkins – Love in the Country
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Hawkins is a qualified veterinarian and busy farmer’s wife who writes popular rural rom coms set in New Zealand. She got start...
Sharon Maas – Celebrating Diversity
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sharon Maas celebrates the diversity of publishing today because she’s been one the writers who has challenged the old formula. Her early 20...
Karen Brooks – Restoration Thriller
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Australian best seller Karen Brooks’ latest book The Chocolate Maker’s Wife is a historical thriller set in the time of King Charles II...
Deanna Raybourn – Expect the Unexpected
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Deanna Raybourn’s motto in life and writing is “expect the unexpected” – and her best-selling historical mysteries are the perfect expres...
Soraya M Lane – Women At War
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Soraya Lane has an impressive backlist in contemporary romance, but she’s hitting the Kindle best seller lists with her most recently publish...
Chanel Cleeton – Cuban Serendipidity
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chanel Cleeton’s two richly imagined dual time stories of Cuban America are break through best sellers, with the first, Next Year in Havana, a Rees...
Rebecca Rosenberg – Golden Women
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Rosenberg’s fascination with women who challenge convention has led her to write historical novels celebrating glorious women of past days ...
Nicole Alexander – Heartland Storyteller
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Alexander is an acclaimed voice in Australian rural fiction, with her new book Stone Country, her ninth historical novel, hitting the Top Ten ...
Becky Clark – Mysteries with Humor
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mystery author Becky Clark’s cozy mysteries tease and entertain with subtly dropped clues, masterly red herrings and lashings of humor, much of it ...
Bart Casey – Elizabethan Intrigue
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bart Casey discovered the Monica Lewinsky of the Elizabethan age and turned her already incredible true story into an enthralling dual time line tale...
Michelle Cox – Chicago Cinderella
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Cox’s genre bending series Henrietta and Inspector Howard blends mystery, romance and family saga into a Chicago Cinderella tale of Downto...
Catherine Bennetto – Sparkling Romcom
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Bennetto’s laugh out loud romantic comedies deal with the “Bridget Jones” dilemmas of contemporary life – unexpected pregnancies, f...
Elizabeth Kingston – White Mythos in Romance
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Kingston was reading racy historical romance as a pre-teen so it’s not surprising she’s a successful author of two historical romance s...
Nicky Pellegrino – A Winning Formula
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nicky Pellegrino’s readers tell her that if they can’t go to Italy on holiday, reading one of her eleven novels so full of friendship, laughter,...
Liz Freeland – Midtown Murder
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Freeland’s new mystery hero Louise Faulk is one of New York’s first woman police officers, a sharp-witted young woman of modest mea...
Kathryn Hughes – International Best Sellers
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Hughes’ first dual time line novel, The Letter, became a word-of-mouth best seller that knocked Gone Girl off Kindle’s Number One sp...
Peter Watt – Aussie’s Wilbur Smith
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Watt’s big canvas Australian historicals have garnered a popular following far beyond the shores of his homeland. And that’s how Peter R...
Nicola Upson – Josephine Tey Mysteries
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nicola Upson’s Josephine Tey mystery series began as research for a biography about a writer who captivated her imagination. . . and grew int...
Liz Fenwick – Secrets & Lies in Cornwall
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Amidst the beauty of Cornwall, two women struggle with their past: one cannot remember hers, the other cannot forget… Hi there I’m your...
Lily Graham – Dual Timeline Dramas
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lily Graham’s dual timeline fiction always finds hope in heartbreak – a result she says of being inspired by people who overcome adversit...
Lindsey Kelk – I Heart Rom Coms
12 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Women’s fiction author Lindsey’s Kelk has made her name with her I Heart romance series featuring the adventures of Angela, a British magazine ed...
Christine Trent – Victorian Gothic
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Trent’s addictive mysteries edge into the dark and Gothic – Victorian England through the eyes of Violet Harper, the undertaker her...
Clara Benson – Golden Age Mysteries
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mystery author Clara Benson could say – along with Mark Twain – that “reports of her death have been greatly exaggerated” ...
Ashley Weaver – Classic ‘Whodunits’
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Weaver is a mild-mannered Louisiana librarian who enjoys creating mayhem in her Amory Ames mystery series, presenting husband and wife amateur...
Annie Seaton – Eco-Adventure Romance
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The inspiration for Annie Seaton’s first fiction was a love letter she received from a teenage boyfriend – written on mauve toilet paper and so l...
Camille Di Maio – Dual Time Mysteries
23 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Camille Di Maio found inspiration for her first best selling historical fiction in a Beatles song – and then had the good fortune to meet the s...
Robin Oliveira – Historical Bestsellers
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Oliveira got started writing her first book after she saw a ghost – yes – quite literally! Hi there I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and t...
Julie McElwain – Time Travel Mysteries
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Julie McElwain’s time travel mystery series featuring FBI profiler Kendra Donovan set in 1815 London has been described as ‘Jane Austen meets t...
Anna Lee Huber – Verity Kent – WWI Spy
02 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Lee Huber‘s dark Gothic-themed Lady Darby mysteries have attracted a strong following and won awards, but she’s not one to rest on her laure...
Jessica Fellowes -Mitford Murders
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Fellowes’ Mitford Murders mysteries have all it – the famous blue blood sisters, fabulous fashion, murder – and a Downton Abbey style T...
Tessa Lunney – Kiki in Paris
18 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tessa Lunney’s party girl hero Kiki Button poses for Pablo Picasso in Bohemian Paris in the first book of a mystery series that gently prods at ser...
Tim Hallinan – Thriller Master
11 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Hallinan’s mysteries and thrillers have made numerous Top Ten Lists for their imaginative verve and humor – and his latest release Nightt...
H. Y. Hanna’s Oxford Tearoom Mysteries
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
H.Y. Hanna’s Oxford Tearoom Mysteries starring intrepid graduate Gemma Rose and her cheeky cat, are for fans of TV shows like Inspector Mors...
Rennie Airth – War Weary Gentleman Detective
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rennie Airth’s gentleman detective John Madden investigates serial killer cases long before the phrase ‘serial killer’ was ever coined, in a po...
Helen Brown’s Feline Adventures
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Brown’s captivating story telling has created an international phenomenon, a family life narrative on the healing power of cats which leavens...
Sherry Thomas Lady Sherlock Mysteries
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sherry Thomas has won accolades for giving Sherlock Holmes a fresh look by taking the famous detective and turning him into Charlotte – a di...
Sarah Barrie – Rural Aussie Mysteries
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Barrie’s rural mysteries feature strong women who don’t need rescuing – women very much after Sarah’s own heart. Hi there! I’...
Brynn Kelly – Right Woman – Wrong Time
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Kelly – romantic suspense author Romantic suspense writer Brynn Kelly has reaped high praise with her Legionnaire’s adventure ser...
Nell Goddin – Mysteries To Die For
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nell Goddin’s mystery series set in a small French village reflects her dream life. If she can’t inhabit it in the real world, like her r...
Mark Pryor – Hugo Marston Paris Mysteries
02 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Pryor’s sharply plotted Hugo Marston mysteries combine the gritty reality of underworld crime with gorgeous Paris settings that revel in Frenc...
Jonathan Putnam – Abe Lincoln Coming Of Age Mysteries
25 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Putnam’s Lincoln and Speed series brings to life the young Abe Lincoln, as a freshly minted lawyer in Springfield, Illinois, solvin...
Christine Carbo – Intense Montana Suspense
18 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Carbo’s Montana mysteries combine nerve-ending suspense with serious questions of the human heart – like whether frayed lives...
Grace Burrowes – Best Selling Regency Romance
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Grace Burrowes is a New York Times best-selling romance author who started out writing for the sheer fun of amusing herself. She’d written...
Tea Cooper – Aussie History Comes Alive
03 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Best selling Australian author Tea Cooper lives in a time warp – a postcard-perfect village two hours from Sydney with 19th-century sandston...
Todd Borg – Classic Tahoe Mysteries
29 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Borg’s private eye Owen McKenna has been acclaimed as a hero who walks in steps of classic gumshoes like Sam Spade, Phillip Marlowe and Lew Ar...
Catherine Robertson -Just Don’t Call It ‘Chick Lit’
19 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Robertson writes funny books about intelligent strong women, and it’s got her into trouble with people who think humorous women’s fictio...
Larissa Reinhart – Sassy Southern Mysteries
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Larissa Reinhart’s funny smart Southern mysteries introduce heroines who are sassy, strong and funny – and generally have an “ex” from some p...
Kate Hewitt – Intensely Emotional Reads
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
USA Today best-selling author Kate Hewitt seems to have “done it all.” She’s a busy vicar’s wife raising five children, and “between meals”...
Estelle Ryan – Art Fraud Mysteries
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Estelle Ryan took a big risk creating Dr Genevieve Lenard, the brilliant body language expert and international investigator who’s the lead ...
Catriona McPherson’s Scottish Downton’s Abbey Mysteries
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Catriona McPherson’s ‘Scottish Downton Abbey’ Dandy Gilver series serves up a hedonistic mix of history, black comedy and murder in ele...
Cara Black – Paris Murder Mysteries
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cara Black is a New York Times and USA Today best selling author whose chic Parisian sleuth Aimee Leduc has been praised by Lee Child as “one of th...
Kristan Higgins – Queen of Love and Laughs
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kristan Higgins is the Queen of warm and funny small town romance – hers is a world of “real life, true love and lots of laughs.” A...
Rhys Bowen – A (Royal) Wedding & Four Funerals
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rhys Bowen’s Royal Spyness mystery series about a penniless English lady who’s 34th in line to the British throne is well-placed for a surge in p...
Marilynn Larew – Sex Money & Terrorism
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Marilynn Larew’s political thrillers involve “sex, money and terrorism” in exotic settings expedited by a mettlesome female James Bond called L...
Susan C Shea – Death in Burgundy
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Susan C Shea won a writing contest – and the prize – a year’s membership to Mystery Writers of America convinced her that writers were su...
Terry Shames – Top Five Texan Mysteries
21 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Terry Shames is an award winning mystery writer whose Samuel Craddock series captures the flavour of small town Texas so well she’s been voted one ...
Patricia McLinn – Mad About Wyoming
11 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
USA Today best selling author Patricia McLinn turned from the macho world of the sports journalism to romance – and then to mysteries. She’s publ...
Gay Hendricks – Tibetan Monk To LA Sleuth
01 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Gay Hendricks has reached the pinnacles of book promotion – on Oprah no less – talking about one of his thirty five personal growth be...
Cathy Ace – Classic Puzzle Mysteries
22 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cathy Ace jokes she followed the advice given to many beginner writers to “write what you know” and the result was her university lecturer sleuth...
Ritter Ames – Organized For Murder
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ritter Ames is a USA Today best-selling mystery author who’s equally at home in the world of fast action international art fraud –...
Jo Spain’s Best Selling Irish Thrillers
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jo Spain’s crime thrillers are Irish best sellers. Her quietly charismatic lead detective Tom Reynolds is called upon to explore dark secrets of Ir...
Jennifer Kincheloe’s Irresistible Anna Blanc
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Kincheloe’s 1906 Los Angeles mystery series introduces the irresistible Anna Blanc, the Kim Kardashian of her day, willing to sacrific...
Candace Robb and Medieval Mayhem
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Candace Robb has turned a passion for medieval history into two best-selling crime series – one with a feisty female sleuth – but both of...
Diane Vallere Mysteries With Humor
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Diane Vallere’s mysteries are for women who like “shoes, clues and clothes” – think The Devil Wears Prada with an amateur sleuth on staff....
Kara Isaac Inspirational Rom Coms
08 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara Isaac’s contemporary inspirational romances are rom-com adventures designed to appeal to a wide audience of readers – even those who don’t ...
Gabriel Farago Visionary Medical Thriller
31 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriel Farago’s latest Jack Rogan thriller is a medical adventure that deals with the dark matter of the human genome and a visionary scientist wi...
CF Yetmen – Stolen Nazi Art Mysteries
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How did first time author CF Yetmen achieve the beginner writer’s dream and have Hollywood power broker George Clooney promote her first book...
James Ziskin – Ellie Stone Goes To Hollywood
11 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
James Ziskin’s Ellie Stone mystery series gives us genre fiction that’s intelligent and entertaining – in spades – and he’s...
Mark Ellis – World War II Blitz Thrillers
02 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Ellis’s World War II London is a place where crime flourishes alongside the heroism of firefighters and fighter pilots and his charis...
Frances Housden – Medieval Scottish Romance
26 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The ‘Chieftain’ series of Scottish historical romances have been best sellers and award winners for Frances Housden, but her latest work ...