S8E1: Who Shot Liberty's Valence?

Welcome to Mysteries to Die For.I am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and producer. This is a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you in the heart of a mystery. All stories are structured to challenge you to beat the detective to the solution. Jack and I perform these live, front to back, no breaks, no fakes, no retakes.The rules for law and order create the boundaries for civil co-existence and, ideally, the backdrops for individuals, families, and companies to grow and thrive. Breaking these rules puts civil order at risk. And while murder is the Big Daddy of crimes, codified ordinances across municipal divisions, counties, states, and countries show the nearly endless ways there are to create mayhem. This season, we put our detective skills to the test. This is Season 8, Anything but Murder. This is Episode 1, suspected arson is the featured crime. This is Who Shot Liberty’s Valence by Ed TejaDELIBERATIONPrivate Investigator Matt Cramer is on a hot case, doing a solid for his buddy Harry and his insurance company on an arson case. Matt knows it’s somebody in the lab with an accelerant and fire. He needs our help with the ‘somebody.’ Here’s his shallow suspect pool in the order we met them: . Paul Larson, former Liberty researcher turned entrepreneur with ValenceTechAlexa Holder, investment manager who is reeling in the investorsRandy Cline, vaccine researcher on whose work ValenceTech is builtLeslie Elli, former assistant who mistrusted the group’s ethicsJosh Walker, influencer and anti-vaxxer looking for a conspiracy.ABOUT Ed TejaEd Teja is a full-time writer and part-time martial arts instructor. His stories (which have little or no respect for genre and take place in one or more of the surreal worlds he lives in) have appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies. His new thriller series about Tina Clarke, the world’s first Storefront Assassin, is available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Storefront-Assassin-Ed-Teja-ebook/dp/B0D36KRZN4You can find him at: https://www.edteja.com at bookbub https://www.bookbub.com/profile/ed-tejaand twitter https://x.com/ETeja