Sunday Tea With V at the Hystery Chronicles Podcast

Sunday Tea With V at the Hystery Chronicles Podcast

Sunday Tea with V features entertaining and informative conversations with authors who write historical mysteries. Award-winning editor Verena Rose poses questions about research and creative processes as well as the historical period her guests are writing about.

Episodes

November 27, 2025 41 mins

On this special Thursday episode, V chats with Anna Dalhaimer Bartkowski about her book "DEAD RECKONING: A Rosalind Schmidt Genealogical Mystery"

In a web of genealogy, murder, and karma, Rosalind Schmidt, the sole survivor of her family, uncovers a dark ancestral secret.

Fate turns sinister when she finds a co-worker dead and suspicion points directly at her. As she wakes from restless dreams of her ancestors, Rosalind que...

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On this special Tuesday episode, V chats with Constance Hays Matsumoto about her book "Of White Ashes: A WWII historical novel inspired by true events"

The bombing of Pearl Harbor propels America into WWII and two Japanese Americans into chaos.

Separated by the Pacific, each embarks on a tumultuous path to survive childhood and live the American dream. Ruby Ishimaru loses her liberty and uproots from her Hawaii home to inca...

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This Sunday, V chats with Andrew McAleer about his book "A Casebook of Crime: Thrilling Adventures of Suspense from the Golden Age of Mystery (Edgar Winner John McAleer’s Classic Detective Henry von Stray 1)"

The Big Push and Legend of Sir Morleans’ Lost Pearls

When a distinguished London barrister confides in private detective Henry von Stray about the family secrets and legends of a Baroness—revered for her service as a s...

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On this special Thursday episode, V chats with Susan Waller Lehmann about her book "Southern Lies and Homicides: Tales of Betrayal and Murder"

This compelling collection of stories by private investigator and award-winning author Susan Waller Lehmann takes readers on her personal journey of casework in the South, from her first process service through domestic situations, to capital murder cases, to the execution of her fa...

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This Sunday, V chats with Michael Rigg about his book "Voices of the Elysian Fields: A Jonathan Gray, M.D. Mystery".

Two days before Christmas, Jonathan Gray, M. D., Chief Deputy Coroner for Orleans Parish, receives shocking news. Robby O’Malley—Jonathan’s mentor for nearly forty years—has died under mysterious circumstances. Within hours after Robby’s death, Gray takes the oath of office as Coroner and participates in aut...

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On this special Thursday episode, V chats with Neil Root about his non-fiction book "The Cleveland Street Scandal: How the Victorian Establishment was Almost Brought to its Knees"

It is the summer of 1889, and the royal family is in crisis. It is well known in polite society, in the drawing rooms of the great and the good, that the Prince of Wales's eldest son and his aristocratic acolytes are regulars at a male brothe...

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This Sunday, V chats with Kit Kane about his Death In One Take (Cliffhanger Clara Book 1).


A GLAMOROUS DETECTIVE.

A KILLER ON THE BACKLOT.

LIGHTS, CAMERA… MURDER!

It’s 1923. Jazz is hot, movies are silent, and for Clara Cupar, the UK film industry’s most sought-after, indeed only female stunt performer, business is booming.

Her jaw-dropping work on The Adventures of Annabelle—the year’s most thrilling cliffhanger movie serial—has ke...

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On this special Thursday episode, V chats with Paula B. Mays about her "Murder in La Plaza De Toros: A Marco in Spain Mystery".

Marco never dreamed that going to see the making of a music video would lead to an expansive investigation into the sudden death of a world-famous singer, Kijamba.

Marco is teamed with Detective Alberto Flores of the Malaga police force in picturesque Southern Spain. Their fraught alliance could b...

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This Sunday, V chats with Nev March again. This time about her new book "The Silversmith's Puzzle: A Mystery (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries)"

Captain Jim Agnihotri and Lady Diana Framji return to India as they investigate a murder amidst colonial Bombay's complex hierarchy in March's fourth mystery.

In 1894 colonial India, Lady Diana's family has lost their fortune in a global financial slump, but eve...

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On this special Thursday episode, V chat with Cindy Goyette about her "A Probation Case Files Mystery" and "A Wiggle Butt Manor Mystery" series.

latest book

Diamond in the Ruff: A Wiggle Butt Manor Mystery

Charlie Calderbank always dreamed of being a cop, but a medical issue forces her out of the academy and to rethink her future. When Charlie’s Aunt Jo-Jo suffers injuries in a car accident, she offers to help at h...

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This Sunday, V chats with Jane Corry about her book "The Stranger in Room Six".

The Stranger in Room Six

New beginnings always come with old secrets.

It's been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband's murder. Now that she’s free, she’s ready for a fresh start. So, when she gets a job at Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart, she’s dead set on making sure no one learns about her awful past.

Mabel has...

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On this special Thursday episode, V chats with Darcy Burke about her "Raven & Wren" series.

The latest release

A Whisper in the Shadows (Raven & Wren Book 4)

A fake marriage. A supernatural secret. A deadly game of deception.

Private investigator Matilda Wren is posing as the wife of Inspector William Maxwell from the City of London Police to infiltrate a burial club scheme. Maxwell is a skilled detective, but he isn...

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This Sunday, V chats with Tina deBellegarde about her "A Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery" series and various short stories.

First book in the series

"Winter Witness: A Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery"

"Intelligent, touching, wise and evocative, fans of Louise Penny will adore this! Winter Witness is a wonderful book." - Hank Phillippi Ryan, bestselling author of The First to Lie

When a beloved nun is murdered in a sle...

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On this special Thursday episode, V chats with historical fiction writer Ellis Blackwood about his "The Samuel Pepys Mysteries"

The upcoming book in the series

"The Brampton Ghost Murders: A historical mystery from 17th century London (The Samuel Pepys Mysteries Book 7)"

They dug for Pepys’s gold – and unearthed the dead.

January 1667. Two thousand pounds in gold coins, buried in Samuel Pepys’s father’s garden, have...

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This Sunday, V chats with Antony Johnston about his Dog Sitter Detective and his interactive crime novel "Can You Solve the Murder?"

Upcoming release

"The Dog Sitter Detective's Christmas Tail: The canine cosy crime series"

It's almost Christmas, and Gwinny Tuffel's thoughts are on what she'll buy for DCI Birch (retired) and whether she can adopt another furry friend. But sorting through her late father's papers leads her into his mys...

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On this special Thursday episode, V chats with Paul A. Barra about his historical fiction book "Samson and the Charleston Spy".

Samson and the Charleston Spy: A Lowcountry Adventure

The protagonist of SAMSON AND THE CHARLESTON SPY may be the definitive underrepresented voice in middle-grade fiction today: he’s a boy and a Southerner, confronting the Civil War from the Confederate perspective.

When Samson Collier and three si...

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This Sunday, V chats with author K.B. Jackson about her "A Chattertowne Mystery" series.

latest book in the series.

Secrets Will Link: A Chattertowne Mystery

Local investigative reporter AUDREY O’CONNELL already has her hands full with Maid of Honor duties for her sister’s golf-themed wedding at the Chattertowne Country Club. Not to mention, the gossip mill is abuzz with news about Chattertowne’s own celebrity influencer ONY...

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On this special Thursday episode. V chats with Martin Turnbull about his historical fiction novels about the golden age of Hollywood.

Martin's latest bookSelznick's Spotlight: A Novel of 1939 Hollywood (The Hollywood's Greatest Year trilogy Book 2)

In the summer of 1939, Amelia Hartley is slinging hash and dishing sass at Schwab’s Pharmacy, but a girl can’t live on soda fountain shtick forever. When she learns of the plan...

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This Sunday, V chats with Phoebe Rowe about her first book Swan Light.

A sweeping, emotional tale of hope and perseverance, Swan Light weaves together the stories of two people separated by a century but connected by family, purpose, and one extraordinary lighthouse.

1913. Eighty-three-year-old Silvestre Swan has dedicated his life to the care of his Newfoundland lighthouse. His petition to relocate Swan Light from its precarious cli...

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On this special Thursday episode. V chats with Joel E. Turner about his book "Wildwood Exit"

Wildwood Exit

A deadly family vendetta at a Jersey Shore restaurant pulls John McGinty (aka Ginty) into a dark world of embezzlement, drug-dealing, a lying wife and a junkie son.

Ginty has just stepped in as the manager of a Wildwood restaurant owned by his friend, Lou Scolletta, after Lou fires the old manager for dipping in the til...

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