They say my man Eddie is a bad writer and cultural archivist--- Shut your mouth! Well we can dig it!

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Cultural archivist, Czar of Noir, great crime writer, call him what you will, we're happy to have Eddie Muller stop by the CrimeWAV this week to read his story "Last Call."

It's a great rendering by the man and if you want more from him, check out one of his books here. His two novels are The Distance and Shadow Boxer. He's also included in our book of the week: Hell of a Woman from Busted Flush Press.

Want to get together for a pint on Jan. 10th? Join me at the Scott Sigler reading at 3PM at Borderlands Books. Afterwards, we'll adjourn to The Phoenix Bar.

Want a movie pick? Watch the heck outa Shaft. If you haven't seen it already, shame on you. Like the man says, "Hotter than Bond, cooler than Bullitt. If you want to see Shaft, ask your momma!" He's Shaft! See the trailer here. It's available with your free trial at Netflix. Gran Torino's not too bad either!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Best to your New Years Eve, all of our well wishes to you and yours for a wonderful season! Xmas

Direct Link to a very CrimeWAV XMas: Episode 21 | Click to listen/Right-click to download.

This special Christmas epsiode of the WAV is a hot story from Jonathan Santlofer and courtesy of Otto Penzler and the Mysterious Bookshop, my favorite book source in NYC.

We'll be back soon with a whole new season of stories from more great crime folks from the US and abroad. Stay tuned! And for now, Happy Holidays!!

I'm happy to bring you a special mid-hiatus edition of the CrimeWAV this week. We've got a special excerpt just for us from Jonathan Santlofer's awesome podcast novel Anatomy of Fear, now available as a free download. The book is also available from Amazon.com and wherever "fine books" are sold.

This is Jonathan's first Nate Rodriguez novel, the story of a NYPD sketch artist hot on the trail of a serial killer. This scene takes place over a suspect interview in the hotbox. Suspect or, in Jon's terminology, "un-sub."

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You'll also hear me talk at the end about what we have coming up and the two great crime-related classes I'll be teaching this spring. Hope to see you in one or them!! More information at http://sethharwood.com/classes and at the Stanford Online Writer's Studio. What could be a better gift for the crimewriter in YOUR life? Give them the gift of Crime this year!

See you back here 'round Christmas! Keep it criminal. 

All she wanted was to keep her baby... the way SHE wanted to keep her baby. And if that involved getting deep into The Life, then she was more than willing to do it.

Episode 20 is David Corbett's "Pretty Little Parasite"

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This story marks the last episode of what we're calling CrimeWAV - Season 1, and so it features an extra-long, special story here that i know you're going to love. Special thanks this week to David for taking the time to give us the extra juice! David Corbett is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: The Devil’s Redhead, Done for a Dime, and Blood of Paradise. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, including San Francisco Noir and Las Vegas Noir and he contributed a chapter to the world’s first serial audio thriller, The Chopin Manuscript. For more, go to www.davidcorbett.com. He's a west-coaster, living in the northern part of the Bay Area--just below Wine Country. Great place.

We'll be trimming down the episodes from season 1 in the next few weeks and re-posting them talk-free at Podiobooks.com. More on that as we get things up. Look for us to be back before XMas with more from the criminals you love, including bestseller Jonathan Santlofer, who's got a special holiday treat or two in store...

I'll be back at you soon. If you want more from me, find it at sethharwood.com my first book, JACK WAKES UP, won't be out until May 5th, but you can get it here now FREE as a podcast and a PDF. Listen and enjoy! There's more where that came from!

“Small Crimes by Dave Zeltserman gets hit with a (good) double whammy. First the Washington Post says “But there's a new name to add to the pantheon of the sons and daughters of Cain: Dave Zeltserman. If Zeltserman keeps writing novels as terrific as Small Crimes, and if the economy keeps nosediving, he may churn out a corpus that rivals Cain's.Oh, and Small Crimes is a paperback original, so fans don't even have to shell out the big bucks they no longer have for this piece of crime-noir genius.”,

Next, NPR named Small Crimes one of the best 5 crime novels of 2008. 

Congrats, Dave! Looks like you're hitting big shots in 2008!! That's the way the Boston Boys DO!

This week's guest is something of an online phenomenon. Her blog Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind is about as close to THE bee's knees as anything online in the crime world can come to be, without being a podcast, of course. ;-)

But Sarah Weinman is not only a great blogger, reviewer, and collector of all things crime publishing, she's also a superb crime writer. This story, "Blooming," comes from the anthology Hell of a Woman like many of the other stories we've featured. Special thanks again to David Thompson at Busted Flush Press for publishing it and to Megan Abbott for editing.

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This week's story is guest read by Mae Breakall of Junkie Mae's Chop Shop, a fan-fiction podcast for the work of Scott Sigler. Thanks to Mae for reading and her husband Scott for production.  

Also, there's a new home for online crime fiction in text: A Twist of Noir. Edited by Chris Grant, Twist of Noir brings you crime flash-fiction stories in the range of 1,000 to 3,000 words. You can submit your work by sending it to Chris in the body of an email here. You got flash crime or noir? Send it Chris's way! A Twist of Noir publishes daily!

We're nearing in on episode 20, which will mark the completion of Season One of the WAV. Look for Aldo and I to be taking a break for Thanksgiving and the beginning of December. More on that soon.

Up next: David Corbett

If you've liked this story, Christa Faust's "Cut Man" and Cornelia Read's "Hungy Enough" then support these writers and Busted Flush Press by buying A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir here.

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Amphetamine Logic is by Nathan Cain, the owner and sole proprietor of the Independent Crime Blog. This story was first published in Thuglit. Read it here. It was also nominated for a Spinetingler award and has been  optioned as a movie.

Couple of plugs this week go to James Green and his book Bad Catholics. Give it a look!

Also, my friend and first publisher Jeremy Robinson's new book Kronos comes out in January. You'll hear a plug for the book at the end of the episode and you can learn more here.

I'll be teaching two interesting crime classes this spring: one online and one here in SF. The first is a Creative Writing: Crime Fiction class for Stanford Online. More info here. You can take it no matter where you are. We'll be workshopping and reading short stories and some students will get to place their work here at the WAV. Registration starts Dec. 1. The second class is a Detective Fiction class for City College of SF. This meets Thursday nights at the Ocean campus near Balboa Park. Info here. If you're interested in either one and want to learn more, let me know. 

Last but not least, this week's Netflix movie pick of the week is Snatch. It's a hard-ass, fast-action Guy Ritchie vessel with boxing, Statham, and plenty of laughs. Kinda rocks. Get it here.

Up next: Sarah Weinman.

This week's guest author, Nathan Cain, has just posted a blog write-up slamming Altman's the Long Goodbye.

Check it out here and let him know what you think!

This week we've got not one but TWO hot stories to tickle your eardrums!

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We have my label mate Dave White, whose new book The Evil That Men Do just came out this summer. Go Three Rivers Press!! (FYI: Barack Obama is another Three Rivers Press homie! Now that's a team!) Dave gives us his story "Limp Puppets" which first appeared in Shots UK.

And then we have a first-time published author, Drew Gardner, a former cop and author of this story "The Good Soldier." As soon as I started to read this piece, I knew Drew had to be a part of The WAV. With any luck, we'll get him on again soon.

This week's Netflix pick of the week is one of my ultimate favorite movies: The Long Goodbye, starring Eliot Gould, directed by Robert Altman, and based on the novel by Raymond Chandler. Can you beat that? No. You can't. Believe me. Or watch and find out! You crime heads will definitely know this one!

Promo: Jack Wakes Up and JACK PALMS CRIME