The House of Love and Death (Cameron Winter Mysteries)

Joining me now, Andrew Claven, host of the Andrew Claven show and author of the recently released mystery novel, The House of Love and Death.

Well, first of all, great to see you, Megan. And I thought that was a fantastic opening. I thought you went a little easy on George Stephanopoulos, to be honest with you.

He is completely untouched.

And the fact that- And she has to believe everyone else. The implication, of course, Andrew, is that she must believe E. Jean Carroll.

That's OK, that you're not anti-holding rapists accountable if you don't happen to believe her. It's the left that tells us we have to believe all women.

And I just think the way that Trump is being treated has elevated him in ways that the left must not have foreseen or they wouldn't have done it.

Good Christmas gift. Check it out.

Good Christmas gift. Check it out.

I'm really I think it's one of the best books I ever wrote.

Basically, you know, in the 2000s, I started watching all what was called the second golden age of TV. And I noticed that all it was were antiheroes, the Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Shield, one bad guy after another.

And the funny thing was, I'd been writing characters like that for 10 years all through the 90s. I wrote a character in True Crime was just like that. It was played by Clint Eastwood in the movies.

And so the Cameron Wynton series is about a guy who's been a killer. He's been a bad guy. And he's now trying to find a way back to being a good guy. And he's doing it in a society that's falling apart.

And the House of Love and Death is about a family that's wiped out. And he goes to investigate this and he finds an entire community that has become corrupt. It's corrupt not only within itself, it's corrupt from the top down things that the president is doing are corrupting the society around it.

This is the third book with Cameron Winter and to just this very day, I sent in the manuscript for the fourth book and the fifth one is under contract.

I wanted to put this guy who was a bad guy in his day, but is now trying to become a good guy. I wanted to put him into a society like ours, which is reaching a crisis point.

And so these are stories about a guy moving through an America that is at crisis point. And even maybe a bit beyond where we are, he's moving through an America. It takes place now, but it's just a little bit ahead of now.

He's a guy who goes into enclaves of surviving civilizations. So this is a little gated community he goes into where a family has been wiped out. And he starts to realize how the corruption of the world around it is seeping in to any place where you try to escape.

And they're about a man trying to make sense of the world and trying to find the truth in a world like that.

Andrew, am I correct? Is it out now or did we get ... Oh no, we get you in a couple days, August 31st if I'm not mistaken.

October 31st. Sorry. Available to pre-order right this moment. While we're talking, you could be pre-ordering. You're wasting your time if you're not pre-ordering.