150 – Danielle Trussoni & Puzzling All Over the World

This week Danielle Trussoni arrives at Talking Scared in a rush. She has a meeting to get to, and we have LOTS of things to talk about in less than an hour. Her new novel, The Puzzle Master crams in enough for a whole Discovery Channel series on conspiracy, mysticism and esoteric history, plus dolls, Golems, quantum computing and a cute little Dachshund named Conundrum. 

How is a host supposed to cover all that at a rush. The answer, drink more coffee and don’t pause to breathe!

We manage it. We talk about all of the above, plus depictions of altered mental states, the curse of a Dan Brown comparison, and Danielle’s search for the perfect haunted house.  

Enjoy!

The Puzzle Master was published by Penguin Random House on June 13th.

Other books mentioned in this episode include:

• Angelology (2010) by Danielle Trussoni
• Nestlings (2023), by Nat Cassidy
• The Long Shalom (2023), by Zach Rosenberg

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