Mechanicsburg Mystery Presents...

MMB Presents...A Conversation with Sheryl C.D. Ickes

Episode #47: A Conversation with Sheryl C.D. Ickes (December 12, 2025) Sheryl C.D. Ickes is an award-winning author with the start of a new series, called the Fluff and Flowers Mysteries, which features two tree fluffers who discover a dead body near 100 Christmas trees! We talk not only about the real-life inspiration behind this unusual real job, and how Carlisle PA is featured in Tough Fluff, but also about her three other on-going book series: A Slice of Life Mysteries, The Becky and Rufus Cross Country Mysteries, and her Fairies of Creek Water for younger readers. Because where else are you going to find a book universe filled with truck-driving sleuths, bakery-owning crime solvers, and fairies who fight against theft?

MMB Presents...A Conversation with Andrea J. Johnson

Episode #46: A Conversation with Andrea J. Johnson (November 12, 2025) The author of the "Victoria Justice" series talks about she her small-town mystery series, her heroines’ loving adoptive mother, and the inspiration for the Delaware beach town where she sets her stories. Since she wrote three books on the writing craft, we talk about her work teaching creative writing and development editor.

MMB Presents...A Conversation with Steve Hockensmith

Episode 45: A Conversation with Steve Hockensmith (October 9, 2025) The author of the “Holmes on the Range” series about two cowboys solving mysteries in the wild West saddled up to talk with us about the series, the sometimes contentious relationship between the “Big Red” and “Old Red” Amlingmeyer brothers, and the research that went into the writing. Hockensmith also discussed the challenges writing the Nick and Tesla children’s series with Bob “Science Bob” Pflugfelder and his journey from entertainment reporter to award-winning author.

MMB Presents...A Conversation with Sarah Ickes

Episode #44: Conversation with Sarah Ickes (September 2, 2025) As we take a fantasy detour from traditional mysteries, Author Sarah Ickes introduces us to the Olde Realm in her Action/Adventure book, “Written Wings.” We get to meet Vectra Tillerman, a powerful guardian who leads two siblings on an adventure to find their kidnapped brother. In a place where Ancient Greeks enter your dreams, mythical creatures are all around, and others give chase for the end reward, will the kids discover the truth about their parents? Also discussed is the larger world that Sarah is building with her stories; which all started with her mystery series featuring Murial Robertson in America 1880s. And did you know that she is an artist as well?

MMB Presents...A Conversation with Radha Vatsal

Episode #43: A Conversation with Radha Vatsal (July 31, 2025) Radha’s talk about her novel “No. 10 Doyers Street” impressed many readers at I Scream for Mysteries, so we brought her on the show to talk about what New York’s Chinatown community was like in the early 1900s, the character of Chinese gangster Mock Duck, what newspaper reporting was like in that time, and the presence of Indian women in America.