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Murderabilia
A banker's carefully built life unravels when a gruesome photograph ties his family to a serial killer's legacy — and the macabre trade in murder memorabilia that profits from it.
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Conversations about the crimes that happen at home.
Carl Vonderau — novelist, podcaster, and former international banker — talks with the writers chronicling crime, deception, and the families it tears apart.
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Award-nominated crime fiction drawn from a career spent close to money, power, and the people who misuse both.
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Saving Myles
When his teenage son is taken hostage abroad, a father with a banker's instinct for risk must decide how far he'll go — and how much law he'll break — to bring him home.
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From international banking to the interrogation of crime
Carl Vonderau spent years as an international banker before turning to fiction — a background that gives his crime writing its unease about money, trust, and the quiet corruption inside ordinary households.
His work returns again and again to a single question: what happens when the danger isn't a stranger, but family. That preoccupation now drives Person of Interest, his podcast on Authors on the Air, where he sits down with the writers and investigators mapping the same dark territory.
He lives and writes between novels and the microphone, building a small studio for long, unhurried conversations about the crimes closest to home.
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