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Welcome to Mysteries to Die For. I am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and editor. This is a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you at the heart of mystery, murder, and mayhem. Some episodes will be my own stories, others will be classics that helped shape the mystery genre we know today. These are arrangements, which means instead of word-for-word readings, you get a performance meant to be heard.

This is Season 1. The first half of the season comes from my book Widow\\u2019s Run, which was published in 2019 by Down & Out Books. If you love clever, sharp-edged mysteries and thrillers, check out Down & Out on the web. www.downandoutbooks.com

Today\\u2019s episode picks up from episode 1. If you haven\\u2019t listened, you might want to start there to meet the players and set the stage. Really, today\\u2019s episode won\\u2019t make sense without it. We\\u2019ve listed a cast of characters in the show notes.

To recap, we met Diamond at her own funeral. She had faked her death, burying the mainstream, suburban professional she was to resurrect her CIA cover. Her funeral was interrupted by a leather-clad, f-bombing blast from her past named Sam Irish. She met her contact, Ian Black, to get the information he acquired for her. But first, he needed her to do a little job for him. We join Diamond as she leaves the funeral.

Today\\u2019s story is about a king, unlikely friends, and quinoa. This is Episode 2: Pump This, Jack or is it Pump This Jack

Characters previously introduced....

Diamond, our hero. Recently widowed. Recently (fake) killed herself. On a mission.

Gavriil Rubchinsky. Russian-born, nerd scientist determined to feed the world. Diamond\\u2019s husband. Died May 14, 2018. The reason for Diamond.

Ian Black. Average, ordinary, white man. Extraordinary purveyor of anything, anywhere, anytime.

Sam Irish. British agent. Formerly worked with Diamond. Pissed she died without him.

Enrique Torres. CIA agent who trained and worked with Diamond. Can\\u2019t believe a candle took her out.

Alexei Rubchinsky. Russian-born, nerd scientist of the medical variety. Diamond\\u2019s brother-in-law.

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Now available from Down & Out Books, The Swamp Killers. A novel in stories. Here\\u2019s what we know is true:

Timmy Milici, a low-level hitter with the infamous Atlanta-based Duplass crime family, ran off with Melody Duplass to Jacksonville, Florida. Olivia Duplass, her mother and head of the Duplass family, was incensed, and put a price on Timmy\\u2014a hundred thousand for his corpse, but with explicit instructions that her daughter not be harmed.

We know that\\u2019s true.

Or, at least, we think we do.

Sixteen writers tell their versions of what happened those fateful days in this gripping novel-in-stories, brought to you from the team behind The Night of the Flood....'