Shelf Discovery

Series produced by Kristin Dreyer Kramer

Series image

Each week on Shelf Discovery, host Kristin Dreyer Kramer offers listeners a brief look inside the pages of a new book. From mysteries to memoirs, classics to chick lit, busy readers are sure to find plenty of picks to add to their shelves. On this week's show, Kristin boards the train with a struggling mystery writer in the audio edition of Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson.

Shelf Discovery is a three-minute weekly feature, dedicated to helping busy readers wade through the shelves and shelves of options to discover books that are worth their often limited reading time.

The show is hosted by Kristin Dreyer Kramer, frantic reader, lover of all things entertainment, and editor-in-chief of NightsAndWeekends.com.

Please feel free to send questions, comments, or suggestions to Books@ShelfDiscovery.org.

626 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin learns about literature with some unlikely scholars in Mikita Brottman's The Maximum Security Book Club.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Harford Community Radio, and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin seeks out family with a crime boss and a wannabe gangster in the latest Justice novel, Dead End Fix, by T. ...

Bought by KKRN, Harford Community Radio, and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin tracks down a stalker with a team of bodyguards in the audio edition of Always Watching by Lynette Eason.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin relives the days leading up to a widely-reported tragedy in Noah Hawley's Before the Fall.

Bought by KKRN and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin returns to fairy tale land with a couple of modern-day kids in author Sarah Mlynowski's If the Shoe Fits.

Bought by KKRN and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 31, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
On the latest Shelf Discovery, Kristin hits the campaign trail with author Matthew S. Hiely's outrageous political farce, The Candidates.

Bought by KKRN, Harford Community Radio, and WLPR


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin packs her bags for an emotional summer at the beach with The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews.

Bought by KKRN, Harford Community Radio, and WLPR


  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin spends a holiday weekend on the case with Claire Malloy in Pride v. Prejudice by Joan Hess.

Bought by KKRN and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin stalks the hottest boy band in the audio edition of Goldy Moldavsky's young adult adventure Kill the Boy Band.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin refills her coffee cup for author Caroline Fardig's second Java Jive Mystery, Mug Shot.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Harford Community Radio, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin dives into a new mystery series with Skinny Dipping with Murder, author Auralee Wallace's first Otter Lake ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KKRN


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to fairy tale land with a couple of adventurous siblings in the audio edition of Sarah Mlynowski's ...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin is paired up with an unlikely couple in author Kemper Donovan's The Decent Proposal.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for answers with a not-so-mild-mannered single mom in Maggie Barbieri’s latest Maeve Conlon novel,...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin moves into a mysterious little town with the audio edition of Natalie Lloyd's A Snicker of Magic.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin is on the case with a pair of Hollywood hotshots in Michael Murphy's latest Jake and Laura mystery, The Big...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels through time with author Mo Daviau's indie rock time travel love story, Every Anxious Wave.

Bought by KKRN and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin returns to the magical summer camp at Earth Ranch with Pseudonymous Bosch's Bad Luck.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin returns home with a prodigal daughter in Richard Fifield's The Flood Girls.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KKRN


  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin heads to Wall Street for Maureen Sherry's Opening Belle.

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1