My Favorite Detective Stories

Today's Episode is brought to you by ThePICoach.com. There you can find info about my PI Coaching services and my books, both of which will help you take your PI business to the next level.Rod Gagnon started in the distressed asset investigations business in 1984 with a repossession agency in New Hampshire when he was a few years out of high school. From that simple beginning, he has gone on to specialize in financial fraud investigations and the enforcement of Court Judgments that range from $1,000 to $20,000,000 from California to Florida. His work includes finding financial account relationships (US and off-shore), locating hidden real estate, corporations, boats, planes, art, unknown beneficial interests, and third-parties with deeper pockets. Besides working with Creditors and law firms with asset recovery plans and ongoing support, he's also been an expert witness and a fact witness. Currently, he's a Certified Fraud Examiner and a PI trade association Board Member (Treasurer in CO and past Treasurer in

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: AmazonMax Wirestone is the writer of the Dahlia Moss mystery series. He's also a librarian by day, a dad by night, and a ne'er-do-well in most of the times in between. He lives in Kansas with his husband, son, and altogether too many books. We explore his mysteries set in the gaming community as well as the the 4 queens of crime: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham.Contact info:https://maxwirestone.com/https://twitter.com/maxwiresThank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Today's Episode is brought to you by ThePICoach.com. There you can find info about my PI Coaching services and my books, both of which will help you take your PI business to the next level.Ms. Stuart is a licensed Private Investigator in the State of Arizona with twenty years of experience specializing in the areas of Financial, Open Source Investigations (OSINT), Corporate Investigations, and Intelligence/Counter Intelligence. She started her investigative career as an Economic Fraud Investigator. She provides seminars on her specialized investigative techniques in Open Source Investigations (OSINT). Over the past years she has provided presentations, and private training, to both Federal and State levels of Law Enforcement Agencies and Military Intelligence throughout the United States including attendees of Department of Homeland Security, US Marshals, FBI, DOJ, Border Patrol, Indian Tribal Nations, and local law enforcement agencies throughout the country. She has written and published several articles pe

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: AmazonCasey Barrett is a Canadian Olympian and the co-founder and co-CEO of Imagine Swimming, New York City's largest learn-to-swim school. His short fiction, essays, and books coverage have appeared in The Village Voice, Mystery Tribune, Crime Reads, Booktrib, and elsewhere. A provocative voice in the swimming and Olympic community, he has won three Emmy awards and one Peabody award for his work on NBC's broadcasts of the Olympic Games; wrote a column for Swimming World magazine; and was the author of the popular swimming blog, Cap & Goggles. He writes the Duck Darley series Under Water, Against Nature and his latest: Tower of Songs.http://imagineswimming.com/Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire.

Today's Episode is brought to you by ThePICoach.com. There you can find info about my PI Coaching services and my books, both of which will help you take your PI business to the next level.private investigation, picoach, private eye, pi, detective, mystery, true crime, novel, writing, favorite, detective stories, crime, drama, thrillerHe’s been a police officer and an insurance fraud investigator. However, for the last 22 years of his life he’s been a successful private investigator. Not to mention an author of numerous books, both fiction and non-fiction. Now, he’s slowly turning the business over to his son as he focuses on coaching and fiction writing.Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: AmazonNick Kolakowski is the author of "Boise Longpig Hunting Club" (Down & Out Books) as well as the "Love & Bullets" trilogy of novellas from Shotgun Honey. His short fiction has appeared in Thuglit, Plots with Guns, Mystery Tribune, and various anthologies. He lives and writes in New York City, where he's inspired every day by whatever weirdness he witnesses on the subway.Website: http://nickkolakowski.com/Twitter: @nkolakowskiDown & Out Profile: Nick KolakowskiThank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Today's Episode is brought to you by ThePICoach.com. There you can find info about my PI Coaching services and my books, both of which will help you take your PI business to the next level.My guest today is Joseph D. Thornton. He has been a licensed private investigator in Maine since 1975 and in Massachusetts since 2005. He owned and operated Lawyers Investigating Service in Maine performing civil and criminal investigations for trial lawyers throughout New England until 1995. He also has been licensed and worked extensively in New Hampshire, North Carolina and Florida. Between 1999 and 2005 Joe was a staff investigator for the Federal Defender Office in the Philadelphia Capital Habeas Unit assigned to Pennsylvania capital cases. Joe has returned to the private sector and currently operates an agency in Portland. He is a former director of the National Association of Legal Investigators, is a Certified Legal Investigator, as well as a Board Certified Criminal Defense Investigator. He has active cases pending

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: AmazonHoward Michael Gould began his career on Madison Avenue before moving to Los Angeles, where he has worked as a screenwriter and playwright as well as executive producer and head writer on a number of network comedies. Last Looks is his first novel and was turned into a movie titled Waldo starring Charlie Hunnam and Mel Gibson. The Six Wives of Henry Lefay, Instant Mom, Shrek the Third.Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com 

Today's episode is brought to you by ThePICoach.com. There you can find info about my PI Coaching services and my books, both of which will help you take your PI business to the next level.Todays guest is Brianne Joseph, LPI she is the Owner and Head Investigator at Sly Fox Investigations, a nationally recognized Private Investigator who has been licensed in the State of Louisiana for 13 years. She has written published articles about Private Investigation . Mrs. Joseph was previously appointed the Region II Director of the Louisiana Private Investigator’s Association. Having worked with other top investigators in the state updating the training manual for new investigators, she has literally helped “write the book” on Private Investigation there She has been featured in several national publications including Essence Magazine, The Atlanta Post, and many others. Brianne is a breast cancer survivor, speaker, best-selling author, and philanthropist. Through her breast cancer empowerment brand, she travels the c

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: AmazonCrimespree Magazine said that "Aimee Hix is an up-and-coming author everyone should watch." A 2019 Lefty Award Nominee , 2019 Shamus Award Nominee, A 2018 Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel for What Doesn't Kill You (A Willa Pennington, PI Mystery Book 1) In this episode, she also plays homage to Robert B. Parker and the Sunny Randle series. After twenty years as a federal contractor, she retired and turned to murder. Fictionally, of course. Aimee lives with her family, three dogs, and all her killer thoughts. It is my pleasure to welcome Aimee Hix to the show.You can connect with Aimee through her website: https://www.aimeehix.com/Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any que

Today's episode is brought to you by ThePICoach.com. There you can find info about my PI Coaching services and my books, both of which will help you take your PI business to the next level.In 2001, Bill started the Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS). His investigation of wrongful conviction cases began with his work in the Nicarico case in 1988 that lead to the exoneration of Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez, who had been sentenced to die for a murder committed by serial killer, Brian Dugan. As a defense investigator, Bill worked with Ed Cisowski, a zone commander for the Illinois State Police and developed tire track evidence that linked Dugan to the murder of Jeanine Nicarico. His investigation was featured in the true crime book Victims of Justice, by Thomas Frisbie and Randy Garrett, Avon Books, New York, copyright 1998.https://investigatinginnocence.org/Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: AmazonJohn Jantunen lives with his wife and two sons in Capreol, Ontario. His debut novel, Cipher, was shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize while his second, A Desolate Splendor, was also an apocalyptic thriller. No Quarter is his third book.Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Today's Episode is brought to you by ThePICoach.com. There you can find info about my PI Coaching services and my books, both of which will help you take your PI business to the next level.Burt Hodge began his career as an investigator after graduating from Florida State University in 1978 with a degree in criminology. After working in the insurance claims investigations sector for several years, he opened State Information Bureau in 1985. His agency conducts a variety of investigations, from record retrieval to backgrounds, interviews, locations, personal injury, and wrongful death investigations. Burt specializes in personal injury and defective product investigations for the plaintiff. He has been licensed by the State of Florida as a private investigator since 1981. Burt has served in a variety of positions in several professional associations. He was a two-term president of the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators and also held other board positions for almost ten years. He served two terms as t

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: AmazonTracy Clark is the author of the Cass Raines PI series. The series, set in Chicago, features ex-homicide cop turned PI Cassandra Raines, a hard-driving African-American gumshoe who works the mean streets of the Windy City dodging cops, cons, killers, and thugs. Her debut novel, BROKEN PLACES, made Library Journal’s list of the Best Crime Fiction of 2018 and was shortlisted in the mystery category on the American Library Association’s 2019 Reading List. CrimeReads also named Cass Raines Best New PI of 2018. The novel also received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, a rave from Kirkus Review, and was nominated for a Lefty Award for Best Debut Novel, an Anthony Award for Best Debut Novel and a Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel. Her second Cass Raines novel, BORROWED TIME, released in May 2019. Book three, WHAT YOU

Today's Episode is brought to you by ThePICoach.com. There you can find info about my PI Coaching services and my books, both of which will help you take your PI business to the next level.Our guests this week are Robert and Andrea Orozco of Advanced Professional Investigations Robert has been a professional investigator for over a decade and a half. Robert is highly experienced in insurance defense investigations and specializes in surveillance for insurance defense and corporate investigations. Robert became President of the Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado in November of 2010. During his term as President, Robert was influential in introducing Colorado’s PI license bill. The bill would ultimately be passed into law after 36 years of previous attempts by PPIAC and took effect on July 2015. Andrea has been a professional investigator for over a decade and a half and has spent the majority of her career working in Colorado. As former VP of Training for the Professional Private Invest

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: AmazonCharles Salzberg is a novelist, a journalist, and an acclaimed writing instructor. His new novel, Devil in the Hole, a gripping work of literary crime fiction based on the notorious John List murders, is on shelves now. He is the author of the Henry Swann detective series: Swann Dives In; Swann's Last Song, which was nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel; and the upcoming Swann's Lake of Despair. His non-fiction books include: On A Clear Day They Could See Seventh Place: Baseball's 10 Worst Teams of the Century; From Set Shot to Slam Dunk, An Oral History of the NBA; and co-author of My Zany Life and Times, by Soupy Sales; Catch Them Being Good; and The Mad Fisherman. He has been a Visiting Professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and has taught writi

Today's Episode is brought to you by ThePICoach.com. There you can find info about my PI Coaching services and my books, both of which will help you take your PI business to the next level.After a successful career in the culinary arts, Alan Goodman began his Private Investigations career working for Joe Thornton in Maine, before buying that business Lawyers Investigating Service Inc. LIS provides a wide range of investigative services to attorneys, businesses and individual clients. He is a member of his State and several National Private Investigator Associations. He is the former National Director of the National Association of Legal Investigators and continues to be my close friend and colleague.https://www.lawyersinvestigatingservice.com/Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com 

Paul Kemprecos' fiction-writing career owes its start to the bad navigation of an 18th-century pirate. For it was in 1717 that a ship named Whydah went aground off Cape Cod, reportedly carrying a fabulous treasure. Samuel Bellamy, the ship's captain, was drowned along with most of the crew. In the 1980s, three salvage groups went head-to-head, competing to find the wreck. He was working for a newspaper covering the treasure hunt. The controversy over the salvage got hot at times, and he thought there might be a book based on the story. He developed my own detective, an ex-cop, diver, fisherman, and PI named Aristotle "Soc" Socarides. He was more philosophical than hard-boiled. His first appearance was in "Cool Blue Tomb," which won the Shamus Award for Best Paperback novel. After many years in the newspaper business, I turned to writing fiction and churned out five more books in the series. Clive Cussler blurbed: "There can be no better mystery writer in America than Paul Kemprecos." Several months after the

Our guest this week is Michele Harris. With a business background, Michele Harris had worked her way up through the ranks at a previous Private Investigator’s firm for 18 years. She then opened Harris Investigations in 2005 as a sole owner and operator. Within 6 months’ time, she had to bring on a full time investigator to help out. She incorporated that year. Multi-state Process of Service, DMV searches and Skip-Tracing are her main areas of expertise. She is licensed and has offices in Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

James D.F. Hannah is the Shamus Award-nominated author of the Henry Malone novels, as well as the novel THE RIGHTEOUS PATH. A native of eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia, Hannah was an award-winning former journalist and columnist before moving into governmental public relations. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.