Deep Cut Books

Deep Cut Books

Looking for the best underrated books from the 80s and 90s? Deep Cut Books delivers recommendations on the hidden gems you missed. Discover forgotten novels from the 80's and 90's and hear from your favorite authors as they share those favorites that made them the writers they are today.

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April 29, 2025 39 mins
Claire Isenthal graduated Magna Cum Laude from Purdue University, and is an account executive at a Fortune 500 tech company. She has worked in digital marketing for over ten years. The Rising Order is her first novel, and she is in the midst of writing its sequel, The New Order. She lives in the suburbs of Indianapolis with her husband, their two children, and their mutt. 

 The Rising Order

 Flynn faces an i...
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THIS IS DEEP CUT BOOKS WHERE WE RE-DISCOVER THOSE FORGOTTEN NOVELS THAT MADE US THE READERS AND WRITERS WE ARE TODAY.

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VERTICAL RUN

DAVID ELLIOT IS ABOUT TO HAVE A VERY BAD DAY AT THE OFFICE.
 
 EACH MORNING IN HIS FORTY-FIFTH FLOOR EXECUTIVE SUITE, DAVID SAVORS THE QUIET MOMENTS BEFORE THE WORKDAY BE...
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April 27, 2025 16 mins
THIS IS DEEP CUT BOOKS WHERE WE RE-DISCOVER THOSE FORGOTTEN NOVELS THAT MADE US THE READERS AND WRITERS WE ARE TODAY.

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 ESAU

IN AN ICE CAVE HIGH ON A FORBIDDEN HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINTOP, RENEGADE CLIMBER JACK FURNESS UNEARTHS A PERFECTLY PRESERVED SKULL, A FOSSIL THAT MAY BE THE MISSING LINK AND THE SCIENTIFIC DI...
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 Prey

When Special Agent Henry Lightstone infiltrates an illegal big-game hunting operation that involves powerful politicians and CEOs, he finds himself up against multiple enemies, includin...
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I'm changing things up. Writers Stuff is now Deep Cut Books. We're still going to chat with all your favorite authors, but i don't just want to talk about their work. I want to know what those books were that made them the writers they are today.

Remember those books that grabbed you, changed you? Those reads that hooked you and made you as a reader? Deep Cut Books unearths the life-altering novels that publishers hav...
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March 18, 2025 42 mins
Scott McCrea

I write adventure novels, thrillers and westerns. I am a Western Writers of America Spur Finalist for my novel, Tales of Tom Mix: The Wild West Christmas.

My books are founded on the notion that the world is full of adventure — you can find it everywhere and anywhere. I want you to enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.

I always wanted to be a writer. When I was in first gr...
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March 11, 2025 35 mins
Mark Greaney is the #1 NYT bestselling author of MIDNIGHT BLACK, the 14th GRAY MAN novel. The Netflix production of THE GRAY MAN, starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans, was the #1 most popular movie on the streaming service in 2022. Mark has written or co-written seven Tom Clancy novels and is also the co-author of the 2019 military thriller, RED METAL, and the 2022 release, Armored. The Gray Man series also includes, THE CHA...
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Tori Eldridge is the bestselling author of the Lily Wong mystery thriller series—The Ninja Daughter, The Ninja’s Blade, The Ninja Betrayed, and The Ninja’s Oath—as well as a two-time Anthony Award nominee, Lefty and Macavity Awards finalist, and winner of the 2021 Crimson Scribe Award for Best Book of the Year. She penned the standalone Dance Among The Flames and, on May 20, 2025, will introduce her new Ranger Makalani Pahuku...
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January 29, 2025 43 mins
About Eric Bishop

I grew up in Connecticut, and relocated to the South after college. After becoming restless moves to the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest occurred before finally heading back East to raise a family. The wanderlust has never left me and I'm always yearning for the next adventure.
 
 After many years in corporate America, I decided to turn my passion for the written word and dreams of...
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January 22, 2025 36 mins
K K Weakley was born and reared in Wexford Ireland. Now living in Cashmere Washington with her husband, kids and 3 dogs. She has written 11 books and plays for stage. K K loves to read historical fiction, fast moving, and a good love story kind of book. 

“I love that people enjoy my stories, and I hope to never disappoint. That is not to say my first attempts were not disastrous, because they were. But I contin...
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January 14, 2025 22 mins
Duane Swierczynski is the New York Times bestselling and two-time Edgar-nominated author of fifteen novels including Expiration Date, Canary and the forthcoming California Bear, as well as the graphic novels Breakneck and Redhead. Along with James Patterson, Duane co-created the Audible Original The Guilty, starring John Lithgow and Bryce Dallas Howard, and co-wrote the private eye thriller Lion & Lamb. He’s also written ...
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Elizabeth K. Kracht is a literary agent with Kimberley Cameron & Associates and a freelance editor. She often participates in writers’ conferences nationally and internationally and lives in Tiburon, California. 

The Author’s Checklist: An Agent’s Guide to Developing and Editing Your Manuscript

An Indispensable Guide for All Writers in All Genres

 The bad news: even really good manuscri...
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December 19, 2024 37 mins
Tessa Wegert is the author of the popular Shana Merchant mysteries, which include Death in the Family, The Dead Season, Dead Wind, The Kind to Kill, Devils at the Door, and The Coldest Case, along with the upcoming North Country thriller series. Her books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Shelf Awareness and have been featured on PBS and NPR Radio. A former journalist and copywriter, Tessa grew up in Qu...
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December 10, 2024 37 mins
Robert Dugoni is a critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author, reaching over 9 million readers worldwide. He is best known for his Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle. He is also the author of the Charles Jenkins espionage series, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and several stand-alone novels including The 7th Canon, Damage Control, The World Pl...
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December 4, 2024 38 mins
Steve Stratton started his military career at the White House Communications Agency supporting the needs of President’s Ford and Carter, Vice President’s Rockefeller and Mondale and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. His work took him around the world introducing him to new cultures, ways of thinking, and the various agencies tasked with projecting and protecting American interests abroad. The jump to the US Secret Service w...
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Megan Beatie, a veteran publicist with more than 25 years of experience in publishing, is President and CEO of Megan Beatie Communications (MBC), a book publicity and marketing agency.

Megan has forged publicity campaigns for numerous bestselling authors including Linda Ronstadt, Robert Dugoni, Soman Chainani, Tess Gerritsen, Jenny Mollen, Ian K. Smith, Lee Goldberg, Becky Albertalli, Maureen Johnson, Marcia Clark, ...
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November 13, 2024 36 mins
Award winning author J. M. Adams is an Emmy nominated journalist with more than 15 years of on-air television journalism experience, reporting for major news affiliates across the United States and abroad.

Besides his Emmy nomination for news reporting, highlights from his career include accompanying the Navy on sea patrols after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and reporting from Kuwait and Iraq while the Air For...
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November 5, 2024 32 mins
Jack Stewart grew up in Seattle, Washington and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy before serving twenty-three years as a fighter pilot. During that time, he flew combat missions from three different aircraft carriers and deployed to Afghanistan as a member of an Air Force Tactical Air Control Party. His last deployment was with a joint special operations counter-terrorism task force in Africa.

Jack is a gr...
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October 29, 2024 33 mins
Gregg Podolski lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children. When not writing, he works as an executive recruiter for a family-owned staffing firm. He loves Philly sports, the Jersey Shore, and is one of the last people on the planet who still buys CDs. The Recruiter is his first novel. 


When bad guys need good help, they call Rick Carter.

He’s a criminal recr...
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Bruce Borgos lives and writes from the Nevada desert where he works hard every day to prove his high school guidance counselor had good instincts when he said “You’ll never be an astronaut.” He has a lifelong obsession with words and stories and a fascination with how telephones work. When not writing, you can usually find him at the local wine store.

Porter Beck

In the tradition of Craig Johns...
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