Episode 1: A Package of Pepper Jack Cheese by KM Rockwood

Original drop date: July 14, 2023

When love-struck Logan Wesley and his Jack Russell Terrier “Jack” take their daily walk past the home of his dream girl, Logan gets more than he bargains for. Elizabeth’s father is laying on the walkway, dead. The suspects include:

• Kristine Wellingham, the trophy wife;
• Roger Wellingam, the older son who is kinda weird;
• Elizabeth, Logan’s crush who is reported being sexually abused by her father;
• Cyndra Heston, the delivery woman who discovered the body; and
• Logan’s own dead beat father (what was he even doing there?)

Episode 2: Who Felled “Lumber Jack?” by Chuck Brownman

Original drop date: July 28, 2023

Chief Tom Goldston is working to save the Taraca Bay police department by solving the murder of the baseball team’s beloved mascot Lumber Jack, aka Wilson Bane. Here are the people Tom has interviewed in the order he’s talked to them:

• Franklin Langford, owner of the Lumberjacks who hired Bain to be the mascot;
• Boomer Cordillero, low level criminal who Bain owed money;
• Paul Caverly, Lumberjacks GM who oversaw Bain;
• Kirk Van Ness, Defender of the Redwood who no showed the road trip;
• Ryan Mitchell, Lumberjacks best player;
• … and I’m adding Sheriff Adam Jones because he’s an a-hole.

Episode 3: This Never Happened to Wolfman Jack by Nikki Knight

Original drop date: August 11, 2023

DJ Jaye Jordan is working alone, spinning tunes for lonely hearts on a Saturday night. When company arrives, it isn’t her yoga buddies, but a blast from the past…with a gun. Time is running out. If Jaye can’t solve this cold case, she just may have to resort to Jumpin’ Jack Flash.

Episode 4: The Death that Jack Died by Ed Teja

Original drop date: August 25, 2023

Legendary Stuntman Howard Cline, aka All Jacks of All Trades, died while previewing his next epic stunt. He jack-be-nimble over a giant candlestick but landed on a life-sized ceramic cow with the crumpled horn. Was it an accident or something engineered by someone inside the house that Jack built.

Episode 5: One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King by Erica Obey

Original drop date: September 8, 2023

The Remo and her once-glamorous residents are no stranger to hard times. When Rex “Suicide” King rolls out of an elevator with his throat cut, it’s up to a washed up house detective and the desk clerk to put the pieces together that spell murder.

Episode 6: When in Doubt…Blame the Jackass by Kyra Jacobs

Original drop date: September 22, 2023

The Misfortune Sisters are at is again. This time an innocent visit by Keith the donkey leads to the discovery of a body and a small town mess.

Episode 7: Live Free or Die Jacking by Ken Harris

Original drop date: October 6, 2023

Estelle Cummings patrols Jawnville’s Locust Valley Park with a senior version of the Guardian Angels, keeping the park safe from the elusive Nature Jacker. She finds him, khaki’s around his ankles and body still warm. With the police eager to shelve the murder investigation because who cares who killed the public masturbator, it’s up to Estelle to solve the mystery. 

Episode 8: The Skewered Jackalope Caper by TG Wolff

Original drop date: October 20, 2023

It’s a Halloween party and the world’s greatest detective Sam Spade is taking the night off. . . sort of. His flirting with Marilyn Monroe comes to an abrupt end went a six-foot tall jackalope falls dead at their feet. Sam is used to having a cast of characters but nothing like this ever happened in San Francisco.

Episode 9: The Odd Arrival of Jack . . . In The Box by Susan Wingate

This episode has been removed due to issues with the podcast. Please see the anthology for Snuffy’s story.

When Snuffy Cod receives a large Styrofoam box, the last thing she expects to be in it is her ex-husband, Jack. She doesn’t owe him anything, but she is curious. Who put Jack in a box and why?

Episode 10: Jack the Knife by Chuck Brownman

Original drop date: November 17, 2023

Murder is tonight’s special on the menu at Henri’s restaurant. Jack the Knife, a skilled assassin, has killed his target, Frank Anson, but hasn’t yet been able to escape. Europol Agent Ivan Richardson and NYPD Officer Sanchez need to identify the killer in a room full of suspects.

Episode 11: The Crackpot’s Jackpot by TG Wolff

Original drop date: December 1, 2023

Cleveland, Ohio, 1895. Detective Cian Kelly and Patrolman Grant McPherson are investigating the murder of a clockmaker. The suspects all have an interest in his daughter’s hand and the tidy pots he brought home from the poker hall. And then there is the matter of pride.   

Episode 12: Detective Connolly Gets Audio Jacked by Jack Wolff

Original drop date: December 15, 2023

It’s 1991 and Tryson St. James, the awesome guitarist known as the Chuck Berry of daddy issues, is in Guitar Nirvana recording studio. England Connolly shouted “road trip” and crossed the Canadian border to see his hero. Minutes after security breaks up the awkward introduction, Tryson is dead. And Detective Connolly is taking his first case.

M2D4 S6 E13 Jack Frost’s Last Etching by TG Wolff

Original drop date: December 29, 2023

Jack Frost, that naughty sprite, is found strangled in a greenhouse. Mother Nature and Father Time have called for Themis, the titan of justice. The suspects include Pare Noel, El Nino and La Nina, Alena Vera, and all the baby new years since the start of time.