John A. Hoda is an award-winning author and headline-making investigator. Readers applaud the realism and gritty dialogue he delivers from his work on the mean streets for the past five decades. He was the show runner of My Favorite Detective Stories podcast. John is a former insurance fraud investigator and police officer.
Hoda graduated from Indiana Univ. of PA with a degree in criminology. He moderates a writing craft study group and is an active member of the Fairfield Scribes, a critique group on steroids. John was a judge in the Shamus awards in 2019.
John has written the six-book FBI agent Marsha O’Shea police procedural series about a badass female agent trying to get her mojo back.
Mr. Hoda released his Gwendolyn Strong four-book small town traditional cozy mystery series in the fall of 2022.
He has written four how-2 books on the business side of running an investigations firm.
The podcast is heard in 79 countries with over 50,000 downloads. He interviews best-selling and award-winning authors about what makes their flawed fictional detectives tick.
He can be reached at hodagen@gmail.com.
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Milford Elementary (Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mysteries Book 1)
One deceased groom-to-be. One dead-end clue. One last chance at redemption. Gwendolyn Strong feels lost outside the classroom. And at loose ends after retiring, the ex-kindergarten teacher longs for the excitement her stable marriage and yoga sessions can’t provide. So the spirited fifty-something leaps into action when a former student takes his life on the eve of his wedding day.
More info →Milford Coal & Ice (Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mysteries Book 2)
Can you solve a 50-year-old homicide? How about two? When two dead bodies are found behind a fake wall in the basement of a pre-civil war era mansion, the grisly discovery rocks the world of centenarian Emelina Bidwell who believes her nephew and his wife left small town Milford fifty years ago.
More info →Milford Daffy Day (Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mysteries Book 3)
Sift out the clues with Gwendolyn Strong. A nut allergy almost turns deadly at Milford’s daffodil festival. When former kindergarten teacher Gwendolyn Strong starts delving into the elderly woman's claim that someone is trying to kill her, little does she realize that the killer won't stop until they get what they are after.
More info →Milford Bed & Breakfast (Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mysteries Book 4)
No way in. No way out. Who killed the party host? Follow the clues with Gwen in this present-day homage to locked room mysteries of the Golden Era in Milford Bed & Breakfast, book four in the Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mystery Series.
More info →Odessa on the Delaware (FBI Agent Marsha O’Shea Book 1)
A mob enforcer taking control. A journalist murdered due to dangerous secrets. An investigator whose dedication to justice could cost her life.
Philadelphia. Marsha O’Shea is eager to reclaim her mojo. So when the dedicated FBI agent receives intel on a Russian gangster consolidating power throughout the city, she digs deep into covert plans threatening to fill the streets with bullet-ridden terror. But she’s devastated when her investigation leads to the torturous death of a crime-beat reporter with evidence.
More info →Clearwater Blues (FBI Agent Marsha O’Shea Book 2)
Can disgraced FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea on administrative leave prevent her neighbor’s deranged ex-husband from shooting up a battered women's shelter? A perfect storm of domestic violence, untreated mental illness, and lax gun laws come together in the final deadly encounter. Can she prevent the next mass-shooting headline?
More info →Detroit Wheels (FBI Agent Marsha O’Shea Book 3)
A Serial killer targets defenseless women in Detroit. An investigator whose dedication to stopping him in time could cost her life. Why are all the three-letter agencies trying to impede her progress?
More info →West Reading Traffick (FBI Agent Marsha O’Shea Book 4)
A sex-trafficking ring for the uber-wealthy. A young Ukrainian farm girl flees a deadly encounter with a Russian soldier. An honest cop and FBI agent whose dedication to justice could cost their lives.
More info →Elm City Towers (FBI Agent Marsha O’Shea Book 5)
Twenty years ago, Sandra Jenkins, a law student in New Haven, CT, was brutally murdered. Her alleged killers were quickly apprehended. Case closed. End of Story. That was until new evidence exonerates them and a new investigation is begun, but not by the cops. An investigative journalist turned podcaster is looking to make headlines and is burning up social media. FBI agent Marsha O'Shea is working the case quietly as a special project for the FBI Deputy Director. As they get closer to the truth, bodies start to drop. Will Marsha find the killer before she becomes the next target?
More info →Liberty City Nights (FBI Agent Marsha O’Shea)
Miami’s most wanted drug dealer is on the run, always one step ahead of the cops. Young, newly married FBI agent Marsha O’Shea, working with the fugitive task force, has figured out how to draw him out of hiding. Will she get killed in the final showdown? If you like determined heroes, constant twists and turns, and realistic police procedurals, then you will love real-life investigator John A. Hoda's crime fiction.
More info →Hyde & Seek
An utterly unique, Victorian-era mystery with a clever play on the famous Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale, where the monster becomes the hero, and lines are crossed along the way.
Unbeknownst even to himself, the kind, gentle, quietly brilliant Dr. Jekyll has created an alter ego—his polar opposite, the dark and dangerous, Mr. Hyde. A little bit Dexter, Hyde hunts down criminals to make them pay for their sins. But his "good deeds" go too far and, now, wanted for murder, he must lay low…until his love interest comes into Jack the Ripper’s sights.
More info →he Foundling House (A Jekyll & Murphy Mystery Book 2)
A missing child. A deadly trade. A love caught between redemption and ruin.
London, 1889. After surviving Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror, Doctor Henry Jekyll and Francine Murphy dream of a peaceful future together. But their fragile hopes are shattered when Francine’s estranged husband, Seamus, reappears—begging her to help find his sister’s missing baby, stolen from a long-term foster home.
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