Dark and Stormy Book Club
Looking for a weekly podcast that's as fun as it is informative? Look no further than the Dark & Stormy Book Club Podcast! Our hosts, Ann Dark, Tracey Stormy, Kathy Night, and Misty Night, are passionate about books and love nothing more than sharing their thoughts on the latest literary releases. Tune in each week to hear our in-depth book reviews, fascinating author interviews, and predictions on what books are going to be the next big thing. With the Dark & Stormy Book Club Podcast, you'll never find yourself at a loss for what to read next! Life would be boring without a little mystery!!
Episodes
Show Notes
On today's episode, we feature six books that we recommend for our listener's TBR. These are books that
have been sent to us for review. There is no way we can read every book but we want to make sure they
are highlighted in some way.
Ann reported on Good Girls Don't Die by Christina Henry (Berkeley 11/23). This is the story of three
woman with one way out.
Tracey reported on The Repurposed Spy by O...
New Beginnings
Show Notes
For our first WWAR for 2024, we discussed three books that feature new beginnings for the protagonist or
storyl
Misty reported on her book “Poison Ivy” by Misty Simon. This is the first book she had published in
2004. It has been re-released two more times since then and has just been again re-released. She says the
book is still a lot of fun to read.
Tracey reported on her book “What Waits In the Woods....
Show Notes
Today we talk with Edwin Hill about his book Who To Believe. It will release today from Kensington
Books.
Monreith, Massachusetts, was once a small community of whalers and farmers. These days it’s a well-to-do
town filled with commuters drawn to its rugged coastline and country roads. A peaceful, predictable place—
until popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home. Suspicion nat...
Show notes
On today's episode we review our top 5 books we read over the past year.\
5
Ann – The Last Orphan by Greg Hurwitz
Tracey – The Devil's Chew Toy by Rob Osler
4
Ann - Last Known Port by Sue Anger
Tracey - Bone Rattler by Elliot Pattison
3
Ann – The Hunter by Jennifer Herera
Tracey – The Camp by Nancy Bush
2
Ann – Malibu Burning by Lee Goldberg
Tracey – Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
1
Ann – The Bones of Birka by Cynthia S...
Ghosts of E#ast Baltimore
Show Notes
On the first official episode of 2024, we talked with David Simmons about his book “Ghosts of East
Baltimore.: David was delightful. Worm, fresh out of jail, tries to make a little money to get back on his feet,
and make it back to the halfway house before his 9 pm curfew. But what should be a simple drop-off, spirals
into a nightmare. Worm is faced with a number of obstacles like Greek ...
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The
most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind
her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.
Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice,
and her younger sister. Alic...
Show notes
Today we talked with Marissa and Jacki, two women we met at Fright Reads They host the Jersey Ghouls
podcast which features horror movies with a feminist twist. We Are in the process of planning a
collaboration with them. They primarily feature movies in the horror genre and we will do a book versus
movie episode of Dark and Stormy Book Club.
We are happy we met up with the girls and look forward to working with ...
Show Notes
For our first Rapid Reads episode we gave short reviews of six different books:
Militia House by John Milas
“This is a beautiful horror story told masterfully and elegantly. It is a brilliant, different kind of war
novel, one that reveals the insidious ways the violences of war can tear people apart from the inside
out. “
Midnight is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead
“a gothic Southern thriller about a killer haunt...
Malibu Burning Show Notes
Today we talked with our old friend Lee Goldberg about his bool Malibu Burning. It is the first in his
new seriues featuring arson investigators Walter Sharpe and Andrew Walker. It is published by Thomas &
Mercer and was released on September 1 of this year.
Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near
hurricane force, igniting voraci...
Show Notes
On today's episode, we selected mysteries that were set in Colonial America.
Misty reported on “A Shaker Murder” by Eleanor Kuhns. It is #6 in her Will Rees mystery series.
Fresh from facing allegations of witchcraft and murder, travelling weaver Will Rees, his heavily pregnant wife
Lydia and six adopted children take refuge in Zion, a Shaker community in rural Maine. Shortly after their
arrival, screams in the ni...
by Lou Berney
9/23/23 William Morrow
This week we visited with an old friend, Lou Berney, about his new book “Dark Ride.:
From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway
Gone, comes a Dark Ride
Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need
Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardly” Reed—good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned—is drifting through life.
A minimum-wage s...
Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing ...
The question echoed off the white tiles in the hospital’s cold, cavernous morgue, and I studied my husband in peaceful repose. I leaned down and put my forehead against his. Silent tears ran down my cheeks. They felt hot, and he felt so cold. It was five days since his death, and my grief felt heavy, like a vast, dark mass pushing down on me.”
When Maggie’s husband, Will, is shot dead in their...
Show Notes
On this episode we talked with old friend Desmond Ryan. His Mary Margaret O'Shea mystery series has
finally been published.
Mary Margaret and The Case of The Lapsed Parishoner (Level Best Books 8.28.23) When Mary-Margaret
O'Shea, a woman of a certain age with mildly Machiavellian tendencies, discovers a homicide scene and
meets an unimpressive lead investigator, she realizes that she has ...
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