After a long hiatus, The Beard and The Dome are back in the studio! Hear Hal Humphreys and John Nardizzi catch up and share the top crime-adjacent books, TV shows, podcasts, and movies they’ve enjoyed this year.

What are your favorites? Throw us some recommendations in the comments.

Money’s a magician. It disappears, shape shifts, and hides in plain sight. If you don’t know what to look for, it may as well not exist at all. In this episode, Hal Humphreys talks asset searches with longtime colleague and friend Marcy Phelps, a professional researcher, licensed private investigator, and Certified Fraud Examiner. She’s the author of Research on Main Street, owner of Marcy Phelps & Associates, and an instructor at PI Education. How do asset searches work? What laws govern what you can and can’t do in researching assets? How do you find hidden assets without getting into legal quicksand? Join Hal and Marcy as they dive into the what, why, and how of finding the money. See Marcy’s new course on asset searches: Beyond the Balance Sheet: Strategies for Finding Financial Assets Online https://pieducation.com/product/beyon…

Meet Rachele’ Davis: a longtime colleague and friend, occasional contributor to Pursuit Magazine, and now, the author of a course for PI Education called “Finding Birth Parents for Adoptees, Donor-Conceived, and NPEs.” Rachele’ has a really interesting niche: She helps reunite birth families. Her clients are adoptees looking for biological parents or siblings, and sometimes, parents looking for the children they gave up for adoption. That process can be an emotional roller coaster for everybody involved. It requires diplomacy, ethics, and compassion to handle all that as an investigator. In this episode, Rachele’ and one of her former clients talk about what it’s like to find out where you came from after wondering for your whole life, and what it’s like to escort a person through that process. Get the course: Finding Birth Parents for Adoptees, Donor-Conceived, and NPEs

1986, Northern Ireland. A British spy is found dead by a desolate country lane — murdered by the IRA. Decades later, his killing set in motion the largest murder investigation ever in Britain and provoked painful national soul-searching about what spies should be allowed to to while serving their countries. Join Hal and his guest, author and journalist Henry Hemming, to talk about Hemming’s gripping new nonfiction spy thriller, FOUR SHOTS IN THE NIGHT: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland. Buy it: https://henryhemming.com/books/four-s…