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Meet Our Host!

 

Bill Peschel is a former journalist who shares a Pulitzer Prize with the staff of The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. He is also a mystery fan who runs the Wimsey Annotations at www.PlanetPeschel.com

Peschel was born in Warren, Ohio, grew up in Charlotte, N.C., and graduated with a B.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He lives with his family and animal menagerie in Hershey, where the air really does smell like chocolate.

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Bill Peschel

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the great authors our podcast has hosted.

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   Presents...   

Welcome to Our Podcast!

Mechanicsburg Mystery Presents … is a monthly conversation with mystery and thriller authors hosted by author and publisher Bill Peschel.

For the rest of our episodes, please visit our

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 A Conversation with Libby Klein 

May 2025

Libby
Klein

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Episode 40

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Episode #40:

A Conversation with Libby Klein (April 28, 2025). The author of the Poppy

McAllister cozy mystery series is moving into women’s fiction (with 

mystery overtones) with her new novel “Vice and Virtue.” We talk about 

Layla Virtue, the recovering alcoholic ex-cop musician., her struggles to 

stay off the bottle, and her desire to avoid being drawn into a murder 

investigation. We also talk about the novel’s comical elements, and the

black Lab that plays a role in it.

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2020

Eliot
Pattison

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Episode 1

Robert
Forte

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Episode 4

Past Podcasts:

2021

Vicki
Delany

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Episode 6

Greer
Macallister

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Episode 7

Sherry
Knowlton

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Episode 8

Sophie
Hannah

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Episode 9

2021

Ellen
Crosby

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Episode 10

Charles
Fergus

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Episode 11

Misty
Simon

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Episode 12

Cordelia
Francis Biddle

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Episode 13

2021 - 2022

Steve
Zettler

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Episode 14

John
Gilstrap

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Episode 15

Otto
Penzler

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Episode 16

Mauren

Jennings

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Episode 17

2022

Korina
Moss

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Episode 19

Gigi
Pandian

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Episode 20

Catriona
McPherson

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Episode 21

2022 - 2023

Karen
Odden

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Episode 23

Connie
Di Marco

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Episode 24

Martin
Edwards

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Episode 25

2023 - 2024

Nicole
Asselin

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Episode 26

Mindy
Quigley

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Episode 27

Victoria
Dowd

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Episode 28

Tom
Mead (Pt. 1)

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Episode 29

2024

Laurie R.
King

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Episode 30

Joyce
Tremel

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Episode 31

Ruth J.
Hartman

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Episode 32

Tom
Mead (Pt. 2)

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Episode 33

2024 - 2025

Katherine
Ramsland

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Episode 34

Wendy
Neugent

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Episode 35

Kemper
Donovan

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Episode 36

Heather
Weidner

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Episode 37

2025

Rosanne Limoncelli

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Episode 38

S.J.
Bennett

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Episode 39

Libby
Klein

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Episode 40

TBD
 

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Episode 41

2025

TBD
 

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Episode 42

TBD
 

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Episode 43

TBD
 

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Episode 44

TBD
 

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Episode 45

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