Back Cover by Bob OstromThis special content is sponsored by Tyrus Books and the fall release of YOUNG JUNIUS. Click here to listen.

In this episode: an introduction to the YOUNG JUNIUS story as Junius and Elf arrive at The Towers. PLUS: a review of the book from Jennifer Hudock and my yapping. Enjoy!

Six foot tall, fourteen-year-old Young Junius sets out to find his brother’s killer in a cluster of Boston’s low-income housing towers—prime drug-dealing territory. After committing a shooting to protect his friend, Junius finds himself with fifty dollars and instructions to run. Shocked by the violence he’s created and determined to see its consequences, he stays put.

This special edition is only available now for preorder on my site. Its features inlcude: a special, embossed dust jacket, awesome artwork by my boys Jerry Scullion and Bob Ostrom. Inside, there will be a b&w insert with photos of some of the book's locations. A cloth binding, a metallic spine stamp, and more fun features will round out this gorgeous edition. You can order right here, NOW!! Go on, criminal, GET SOME!

It gives me great pleasure to partner once again with Gerald So and the gang from The Lineup. This dynamite collection of poets, editors and readers has joined us once before back on episode 36 (see here) and now return for Issue 3 of their annual publication.

You can listen to this year's selection of poems right here. (Right-click to download.)

You'll hear work by James Sallis, Wallace Stroby, David S. Pointer, David Hernandez, James M. McGowan, Henry Chang, Jackie Sheeler, Carrie McGath, and Sarah Cortez.

In addition to these poems, The Lineup 3 includes verse by Patricia Abbott, Reed Farrel Coleman, James W. Hall, and others -- thirty poems in all, by nineteen poets.

Lineup 3 is available in print on Lulu.com here as well as at these fine independent mystery bookstores: Murder By the Book (Houston, TX); Once Upon a Crime (Minneapolis, MN); The Mysterious Bookshop (New York, NY).

I hope you'll pick one up; at $7 you can't go wrong! You can also get issues 1 and 2 for even less here at Amazon. Rock on, don't front, and bust into this week's poems like you'd tear into your favorite bag of potato chips! Thanks to Gerald, Richie, Sarah, and Anthony for partnering with us once again.

Here is episode 53: Part one of Scott Sigler's "Kissyman and The Gentleman"

Listen/Download here.

If you'd like to listen to the rest of this story, just head right over here to see the feed with ALL EIGHT episodes! The story continues...

You'll also hear a special first chapter preview of Scott's new novel, THE STARTER in this episode! Scott is breaking all new publishing ground with what he's doing with this book and it's also a smash piece of awesome. Consider what would happen if you combined Any Given Sunday, The Godfather and Star Wars...

To buy your copy of THE STARTER, head here and use the code "SETH" when you do to save some green!

You will also hear promos here for JP O'Donnell's Deadly Codes!, the spring line from Tyrus Books, including new fiction from Victor Gischler and Angela S. Choi and much more...

Click here to listen to or download episode 51.

Twist Phelan is the author of the critically-acclaimed and award-nominated Pinnacle Peak mystery series (Poisoned Pen Press) and short stories for various magazines and anthologies. This week's story, "A Stab in the Heart" was originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. It is nominated for an International Thriller Award! (The winner will be announced June, 2010)

She is currently at work on a thriller. Twist has competed in Ironman triathlons, skate-skied in Scandinavia and bicycled from the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast in less than four weeks. Her website is www.twistphelan.com

A Stab in the Heart is about how a holocaust survivor’s fatal plunge down a New York tenement stairway evokes a detective’s memories of his brutal African past, and forces him to choose between vengeance and justice. You've got to check it!

Twist's novels are Family Claims (2004), Spurred Ambition (2006), Heir Apparent (2007) and False Fortune (also 2007). You can buy them all here.

I am more than pleased to present to you the first few chapters of JP O'Donnell's Fatal Gamble this week for your ears. This is part of us getting into the mode of showing you more crime NOVELS that you can listen to free out here in El Podosphere. Fatal Gamble is available in full form at Podiobooks.com. Check it out here!

Coming soon, we'll have more books to let you hear in their entirety. We're even working toward an upcoming companion site: CrimeWAVBooks! Definite hotness!

Joseph P. O’Donnell is a fellow Beantown Boy. In addition to being an Associate Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, O’Donnell is also the author of two mystery novels, Fatal Gamble and the sequel, Deadly Codes.  Both books have been awarded “Editor’s Choice and Reader’s Choice” and are available at Amazon.com.  Deadly Codes will begin its serialization as a free audiobook immenintly. To find Deadly Codes and for more information about JP O’Donnell, please visit his website www.jpodonnell.com.