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Mystery Conversations: A Bell Cow Podcast brings the best of Minnesota Mystery Night to listeners everywhere. These episodes are recorded live, in front of an audience, at the long-running monthly event that pairs top mystery and thriller writers with smart, engaging interviewers for lively, unscripted conversation. Expect craft talk, publishing stories, crime-fiction gossip of the respectable variety, and the kind of audience energy you only get when book people gather in a room together. Minnesota Mystery Night describes itself as a live, meet-the-author event featuring the top mystery and thriller writers in conversation with intriguing guests, held on the third Monday of each month in Mendota, Minnesota.
These Bell Cow encore presentations preserve those live conversations and give them a second life beyond the room. They also connect to Masters of Mystery Radio Hour, the broadcast version of Minnesota Mystery Night, which is recorded live at the event and carried on multiple radio stations in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, including KRWC-AM, AM950/KTNF, KTOE, KLTF, KCCR, KKBJ, KWNO, WWIS, and KJAM. Bell Cow Productions, meanwhile, exists to support writers through podcasts, resources, and behind-the-scenes literary conversation, which makes this series a natural fit for the herd.
Originally recorded 6/15/2026 at Lucky’s 13 Pub in Mendota, Minnesota: Longmire creator Craig Johnson joins iconic Minnesota author William Kent Krueger for a special evening of lively conversation recorded in front of an audience at Minnesota Mystery Night. This episode brings together two of the most recognizable voices in modern crime fiction for a discussion of storytelling, setting, character, suspense, and the enduring appeal of mysteries rooted in place. Bell Cow is proud to give the evening an encore presentation, with the conversation also living on through Masters of Mystery Radio Hour.
William Kent Krueger is the New York Times bestselling author of The River We Remember, This Tender Land, Ordinary Grace, and the Cork O’Connor mysteries. His work has earned numerous honors, including the Edgar Award for Ordinary Grace, and he makes his home in St. Paul.
https://williamkentkrueger.com/
Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mysteries, the books behind Longmire, the hit Netflix original drama. His 22nd Longmire novel, The Brothers McKay, was released in May 2026, and he lives in Ucross, Wyoming.
https://www.craigallenjohnson.com/
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