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12/01/2025

Mysteries to Die For Season 8 is LIVE!
This season it's Anything but Murder. Twenty-four new mysteries crafted in the classic "whodunnit" style. This season, beat the detectives to the solution on cases of arson, safe robbing, and dognapping, just to name a few.

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12/01/2025

Mysteries to Die For, Season 8 Episode 1: Who Shot Liberty's Valence by Ed Teja

For this season's episode art, I'm going with a vector image of an element straight out of the case. Episode 1 investigates the suspected arson of a vaccine research lab. It was more challenging than I expected to find a image that worked and did NOT say COVID.

Check out Mysteries to Die For wherever you get your podcasts and see if you can beat PI Matt Cramer to the solution.

10/01/2025

S8E1: Who Shot Liberty's Valence by Ed Teja

Private Investigator Matt Cramer is on a hot case, doing a solid for his buddy Harry and his insurance company on an arson case. Matt knows it’s somebody in the lab with an accelerant and fire. He needs our help with the ‘somebody.’ Here’s his shallow suspect pool in the order we met them: .
• Paul Larson, former Liberty researcher turned entrepreneur with ValenceTech
• Alexa Holder, investment manager who is reeling in the investors
• Randy Cline, vaccine researcher on whose work ValenceTech is built
• Leslie Ellis, former assistant who mistrusted the group’s ethics
• Josh Walker, influencer and anti-vaxxer looking for a conspiracy.

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03/01/2025

Toe Tag: The Ballad of the Great Value Boys by Ken Harris

The Ballad of the Great Value Boys is a PI Mystery. Steve Rockfish is up in central Pennsylvania, doing what is becoming a hobby, getting Raphael “Raffi” Perez out of trouble. This time, quick thinking and fast talking isn’t enough and the pair limp back to Baltimore with their pockets lighter. Raffi isn’t willing to let the loss stand and wants to go back in. When Steve declines, Raffi recruits the recently retired Dan Decker. Now it’ll take the combined talents of Rockfish & McGee to save Raffi and Dan and stop the swarm of hornets they kicked up.

Bottom line: The Ballad of the Great Value Boys is for you if you like smart ass P*s and cases close to real headlines.

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02/01/2025

Announcing our 5-Star Rated Books of 2024

We are fortunate in that the Toe Tags we do as part of Mysteries To Die For exposes us to many authors and titles we wouldn't ordinarily find on our own. Add to that list the books that are recommended by other readers and the ones given as gifts and, well, we read a lot of mystery, crime fiction, and thrillers. This post contains those that we gave 5-star ratings to in 2024. To earn 5 stars, a story has to have flawless logic, lead characters who drive their stories, no loose ends, great characters, and, of course, be entertaining. Happy Reading Detectives!

The January Co**se by Neil Albert (PI Mystery)
One Dead, Two to Go by Elena Hartwell Taylor (PI Mystery)
Warm, Wet, and Noisy by David A Willson (Cop Mystery)
Lines of Deception by Steve Anderson, Author (Thriller)
Knife River by Baron R. Birtcher (Cop Mystery)
The Billiard Room Mystery by Brian Flynn (1927, Amateur Sleuth)

02/01/2025

Mysteries to Die For has a NEW WEBSITE.

After 7 Seasons, the Mysteries to Die For podcast has spun off from co-creator's TG Wolff's author page. Preview Season 8 (drops start Jan 10), find past seasons, meet the authors you love, access all 58 toe tag book reviews, and get to know Jack and TG.

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22/12/2024

M2D4 Toe Tag: Elephant Safari by Peter Riva

Elephant Safari is a political thriller. Documentary film maker Pero Baltazar and elite guide Mbuno are on a walking safari when they come across a herd of elephants being terrorized by poachers. After intervening, they take on the responsibility of protecting the herd and ending the poaching, which draws them into an international conspiracy they could not imagine.

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20/12/2024

M2D4 Toe Tag: Elephant Safari by Peter Riva

Documentary film maker Pero Baltazar and elite guide Mbuno are on a walking safari when they come across a herd of elephants being terrorized by poachers. After intervening, they take on the responsibility of protecting the herd and ending the poaching, which draws them into an international conspiracy they could not imagine.

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16/12/2024

M2D4 S7E23 Rock Paper Scissors Shoot by Jack Wolff

Detective Connolly is back. This time he's dying to meet Staniel Purquees. The problem is the fungus king is dead. The four suspects have been sequestered in a hangar in dire straits. To survive, Connolly has to deduce the role each has played - rock, paper, or scissors - to find the killer known as shoot.

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06/12/2024

M2D4 Toe Tag: The Light Beside the Sea by Connie Archer

The Light Beside the Sea is a cozy mystery. Julia Bonatti is an astrologer who gives guidance to others to allay fears of change and the future. Yet, she is stuck in her own past, one that won’t lie quiet. A few, short years ago, her fiancé Michael was killed in a hit-and-run as he returned from an archeological expedition. Now it comes to light that he wasn’t the only grad student related to the project or the professor who has died. The latest was just days ago. Now Julia is asking questions. By solving one death, she just may be able to provide closure on them all.

Bottom line: The Light Beside the Sea is for you if you like cozy mysteries and a touch of the unexpected.

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22/11/2024

M2D4 Toe Tag: Map of My Escape by Cheryl Reed

Map of My Escape is a crime drama novel. Anti-gun activatist Riley Keane has done the unthinkable. In a crisis situation, she shot at two men wrestling. But did she shoot the assailant or her close friend and Chicago police officer Reece Taylor? Either way, she’s too hot to stay in her hometown. Now Alderman Finn O’Farrell, Riley’s lover, is left to deal with the fallout of threats, accusations, and blackmail.

Bottom line: Map of My Escape is for you if you like crime driven drama delivered at a pace to be savored.

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17/11/2024

M2D4 S7E22 The Hangman's Ladies by TG Wolff

It's 1895 and Payne McPherson has arrived at her professor’s home for a study session to find her hanging from her French doors. She turns to Cleveland police detective Cian Kelly for help and appoints herself his assistant. Their investigation takes a sinister twist when they find the remnants of a hangman game her professor lost. And she wasn’t the only one.

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--I really enjoy reading the stories that created the mystery genre. I'm talking 1840s-1940s. The late 1800s and early 1900s really fascinate me, so I tried my hand at writing my own. Allow me to introduce the McPhersons of Cleveland, Ohio and the often reluctant but seldom quiet Detective Cian Kelly. This story, The Hangman's Ladies, makes the third case in the series. I see more in my future!

And isn't this cover gorgeous? I think Payne McPherson is going to take on some of this beautiful model's features.

15/11/2024

M2D4 S7E22 The Hangman's Ladies by TG Wolff

It's 1895 and Payne McPherson has arrived at her professor’s home for a study session to find her hanging from her French doors. She turns to Cleveland police detective Cian Kelly for help and appoints herself his assistant. Their investigation takes a sinister twist when they find the remnants of a hangman game her professor lost. And she wasn’t the only one.

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10/11/2024

M2D4 E21: Death by Candy Land by Kyra Jacobs

Kyra dazzling candy confections were enough to keep Jack from cornering his candy loving killer. With only 3 episodes left in the season, Jack is going to come out ahead, but will the authors close the gap?

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08/11/2024

M2D4 Toe Tag: Lethal Standoff by DiAnn Mills

Lethal Standoff is an amateur sleuth mystery. A hostage standoff by a desperate man has innocent lives in the crossfire. After a hostage crisis ends with loss of life, Hostage negotiator Carrington Reed and reporter Levy Ehrlich follow through on promises to seek answers and protect a suspect’s family. But if solving problems were that easy, they would have been solved already.

Bottom line: Lethal Standoff is for you if you like your mysteries and thrillers woven into the life and faith of your detectives.

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03/11/2024

M2D4 S7E21: Death by Candy Land by Jacobs

Mic Garcia loves Halloween. In his most elaborate party theme ever, he transformed his back yard into the beloved game world of Candy Land. But all is not well inside Gumdrop Mountain and Sheriff Cantalone has to figure out who gummed up this Halloween party.

This was by far the most colorful cover of the season. And, yes, I would move into that waffle roofed cottage tomorrow.

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01/11/2024

M2D4 7E21: Death by Candy Land by Kyra Jacobs

Mic Garcia loves Halloween. In his most elaborate party theme ever, he transformed his back yard into the beloved game world of Candy Land. But all is not well inside Gumdrop Mountain and Sheriff Cantalone has to figure out who gummed up this Halloween party.

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