Episodes

Regency romance queen Stephanie Laurens has been in the top 100 Romance of the Year lists many times over. She is one of the most successful and popular romance novelists of all time, with over 80 works of historical romance, including 40 New York Times bestsellers. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and on Binge Reading today Stephanie talks about switching from cancer research to romance and the changing tastes of romance readers. As usual, we’ve got free books to give away. This week it...

Catherine Lea is a thriller writer whose latest book, The Water’s Dead, is New Zealand’s answer to Vera Stanhope. It’s the first in a new Kiwi crime series, a thriller with surprising twists. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and on Binge Reading today Catherine talks about her new character, Detective Inspector Nyree Bradshaw and her race against time to solve a murder where everyone has something to hide and no one is telling the truth. If she fails, it’s likely a child dies. It’s the fi...

Today on The Joys of Binge Reading Meg Waite Clayton, international bestselling author of The Last Train to London, returns with another haunting wartime story–The Postmistress of Paris. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and on Binge Reading this week, Meg talks about her latest acclaimed wartime story set in the early days of the Nazi Occupation of France. It’s a haunting love story of high stakes danger and incomparable courage, based on the true story of a young American heiress who help...

Bestselling and award-winning master of romantic suspense Lynette Eason talks about her new book, Life Flight, the first in the high-octane adventure series Extreme Measures. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and on Binge Reading this week Lynette talks about the secret of putting her military and emergency first responder heroes in the worst possible situations and seeing them beat the odds. Free Books Giveaway As usual, we’ve got free books to give away, this time a selection of books ...

Heather Webber is drawn to the magic side of life, with mysteries that reflect southern charm, food, family, and a very light dusting of the supernatural. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and on Binge Reading today Heather talks about her magical mysteries, including one called Midnight at the Blackbird Café, inspired by a Beatles hit song. I bet you can’t guess which one. As usual, we’ve got a great free book giveaway offer, more than sixty historical fiction books called Escape Into Hi...

Andy Straka is an award-winning mystery author whose latest book, Split City, features identical twins who are also former pro bowling champions. When one of them is called upon by the small Midwest town sheriff to identify the other’s body in the morgue, as you can imagine, all hell breaks loose. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today in Binge Reading Andy talks about the similarities between his own life and the characters in his story. He too is an identical twin who spent a lot of...

Kate Quinn is an international bestselling author of World War II stories like The Alice Network and The Rose Code. Now she’s back with her latest, The Diamond Eye, based on a true story of a mother who became a reluctant soldier and then deadliest female sniper, in a place where she changed history. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and on Binge Reading today Kate talks about the romance at the heart of her World War II story about a lethal female sniper, and about having a book overtaken...

Reyna Marder Genten had nearly 20 years in the public defender’s office as an appellate attorney, before she decided to trade in her legal robes for a keyboard and launched herself into a second career as a writer of legal thrillers and women’s fiction. Hi there. I’m your host, Jenny Wheeler. And today Reyna talks about her latest book, Both Are True. presenting the inside story of a woman at the height of her career as a family court judge, who’s faced with temptation when career and personal ...

Kaira Rouda is a USA Today and Amazon bestselling author who was a highly successful marketing entrepreneur before she took to writing suspenseful psychological thrillers which dig beneath the surface of seemingly perfect lives. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Kaira talks about her latest spine-tingling story, Somebody’s Home. Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she’s starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is the first step toward...

Christian White is an Australian author, screenwriter, and producer whose award-winning first novel, the nail-biting suspense story, The Nowhere Child, has already attracted a major screen deal. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Christian White talks about his latest psychological thriller, Wild Place, which raises the question as old as time itself – why do good people do bad things? He also talks about his screen writing, including co-writing the hit Netflix show Clickbait, whi...

Susan Kiernan-Lewis is a USA Today bestselling author with multiple mystery series set in France and a dystopian futurist series set in Ireland. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today on The Joys of Binge Reading Susan talks about her passion for all things French, her fascination with the idea of a post-apocalyptic world, and the challenges of living with face blindness – a condition which makes it difficult to recognize other people’s faces. And don’t forget, you can also get exclu...

Award-winning author Isabella Maldonado wore a gun and a badge for two decades in real life before turning her talents to writing about crime, rather than chasing criminals. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today Isabella talks about how The Cipher, the first book in her series featuring FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera, is currently in development with Netflix starring Jennifer Lopez. She talks about how she came to crack the thriller suspense market. We’ve got a free book giveaway, ...

Susan May Warren is a RITA and Christy award winning inspirational suspense author with over 100 contemporary and historical romances published in more than 20 languages. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and on Binge Reading today Susan May talks about the adventure suspense she writes that takes her characters all over the world. She tells how she got started with her writing isolated in a Russian winter, and about her passion for mentoring beginner writers. Don’t forget you can get exc...

Contemporary romance author Barbara Freethy is an Amazon KDP Bestselling Author of All Time with a total now of 12 million books sold in multiple languages. She’s a master of thrilling mysteries, romantic suspense and heart-warming romance. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today in The Joys of Binge Reading Barbara talks about the enjoyment she gets from being able to switch between the more chilling thrillers she writes to her charming love stories, and she also talks about the advan...

Jayne Ann Krentz is a master of historical romance and paranormal mysteries, with 35 million copies of her books sold internationally, so she’s a perfect author to feature for this month of St Valentine. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and on Binge Reading today Jayne Ann talks about creating her interlinked JayneVerse – that’s interlinking of her characters across all of her three series. She gets on to talking about her latest books in her Fogg Lake contemporary paranormals, her Burnin...

Kate Langbroek’s joyous, brave book Ciao Bella! about taking her family of six to Italy for a year, offers the perfect start to 2022 because it’s an optimistic ‘can do’ tale of overcoming challenge – including ending up home schooling in a Bologna lockdown! Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in Binge Reading today we’ve got something a little different – our first non-fiction book by popular demand! Kate and her husband Pete were looking for a “circuit breaker” in family life after year...

Binge Reading Giveaway for January 2022 Before we get to the Top Ten–we’ve got a Giveaway draw for January–three E book copies every week of my Three Holiday Novellas Book Bundle–A mix of mystery and Christmas romance set in historic New York, Hawaii and California, Books #4 #6 and #8 in the Of Gold & Blood historic mystery series. Enter the draw on our website, the joys of binge reading.com and be in to one of three copies going to lucky readers every week in January. Offer closes January 31. ...

Welcome to the Best Of The Joys of Binge Reading podcast 2021 – The Top Ten most listened to episodes of the year! I hope you had a happy Christmas and that 2022 will be rather less turbulent than the one we are leaving behind us! I know I said last year that New Zealand tended to “go to the beach” over this period, but this year it’s a little different because of – dare I mention the word – the pandemic we’ve all been battling our way through. I’m taking a nice restful “Staycation” at home, de...

A publishing disaster led romance author Karen Swan into the schedule that’s made her an international bestseller, with two books a year – a summer one and a wintry snow-bound Christmas one that regularly make the UK top popular fiction lists. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in Binge Reading today Karen talks about Midnight in the Snow, her latest Christmas blockbuster, set in a ritzy Austrian ski resort, as well as her new five-book historical fiction series, launching in 2022. We’...

Patti Callahan is our guest on The Joys of Binge Reading today – the 200th episode of the show which we started four years ago with the goal to simply reach 50 episodes. I am delighted to share it with an author who has devoted the last seven years of her life to researching the remarkable relationship between C S Lewis and his American wife, Joy Davidman. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler. Patti has produced two best-selling books from this work she’s carried out so lovingly. The first, Be...

Lulu Taylor hit the Sunday Times bestseller lists with a winter-themed escapist story with hidden depths – and found she had a winning formula for holiday reads that are perfect for curling up on the sofa with cup of hot chocolate or a glass of mulled wine. The latest, A Winter Memory, is an absorbing family drama set on the edge of a Scottish loch in an ancient manor house. It’s a perfect setting for revelations of love, obsession and betrayal. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today...

Sandy Barker turned an adventurous travelling life into fiction and half a dozen books later she’s still going strong, with her latest, The Dating Game, described as the perfect escapist romcom for the holiday season. Hi there I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in today’s Joys of Binge Reading episode Sandy talks about how a meeting with her husband in Greece launched her career as an author, and how a fascination with reality TV inspired The Dating Game… We’ve got three E book copies of The Dati...

Alli Sinclair’s books are recommended for readers of Kate Quinn and Judy Nunn and that tells you a lot about the sort of stories they are – dual timeline family stories unravelling long buried secrets. Her latest book, The Codebreakers, takes that scenario one step further. It deals with national as well as personal secrets and tells the story of the cypher-breaking Australian women who staffed Central Bureau Intelligence – the equivalent of Bletchley Park in London. Hi there, I’m your host Je...

Lucy Coleman writes feel good, uplifting stories, set in beautiful locations. Her most recent book, Summer in Andalucía, is about a Jamie Oliver style celebrity cook fronting a TV program that sounds a lot like MasterChef. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in Binge Reading today Lucy talks about her remarkable work ethic – she’s like a book-producing machine – the special appeal of Christmas stories, and her contemporary romance under the pen name Linn B Halton. As a celebration of th...