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Freida McFadden’s true identity revealed!

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The Edgar Awards

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• Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers - Caroline Fraser
• The Dream Hotel - Laila Lalami
• Blood in the Water - Tiffany D. Jackson
• Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy
• Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man - Jessie Q. Sutanto
• Japanese Gothic - Kylie Lee Baker
• A Violent Masterpiece - Jordan Harper

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• Liane Moriarty is writing a sequel to Big Little Lies, called Big Little Truths, and yes, it’s being adapted as Season 3 of Big Little Lies on HBO.
• Tina Fey is adapting Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan is Killing It for Peacock.
• Maya Hawke has been cast in God of the Woods!

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• In the Woods: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad)In the Woods - Tana French
• Monday’s Not Coming - Tiffany D. Jackson
• Murder at Gull’s Nest - Jess Kidd
• Find Her - Ginger Reno
• Olive Oakes and the Haunted Carousel - Kalynn Bayron
• Nothing Tastes As Good - Luke Dumas
• The Keeper - Tana French

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• “On True Crime” - Myriam Gurba
• Beth Is Dead - Katie Burnet
• Whidbey - T Kira Madden
• Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession - Sarah Weinman
• Creep - Myriam Gurba
• Everyone In This Bank Is a Thief - Benjamin Stevenson
• The Curse of Hester Gardens - Tamika Thompson

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• Discussion Guide

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• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

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• God of the Woods - Liz Moore - next book club read! - March 6th
• E. Lockhart and Sarah Mlynowski are cowriting a new series featuring Nancy Drew as a divorced 40-year old Brooklyn mom who finds herself back in the sleuthing saddle.

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• A Hymn to Life - Gisele Pilicot, Translated by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver Performed by Emma Thompson
• The Body - Bethany C. Morrow
• One of Us Knows -  Alyssa Cole
• Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster - Stephen Carter
• The Star from Calcutta (A Perveen Mistry Novel) - Sujata Massey
• Hooked: A Novel of Obsession - Asako Yuzuki, Translated by Polly Barton
• Goodbye Earl - Leesa Cross-Smith
• Dollface - Lindy Ryan

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• God of the Woods by Liz Moore - our next book club read! - March 6th
• Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware series is being adapted for TV.
• Adrian McKinty’s The Chain is getting a series adaptation at HBO.

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• Island Witch - Amanda Jayatissa
• At the Water’s Edge - Sara Gruen
• Murder at Gulls Nest - Jess Kidd
• Murder at the Spirit Lounge - Jess Kidd
• Even As We Breathe - Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
• Such a Perfect Family - Nalini Singh
• Trad Wife - Saratoga Schaefer

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• God of the Woods - Liz Moore - next book club read! - March 6th
• Read Harder Challenge 2026

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• 22) Nonviolent True Crime: The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy - Paige Williams
• 17) Cults: Kismet - Amina Akhtar
• 6) Read a gothic novel published in the last ten years - The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story - Olga Tokarczuk, Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• 21) Read a genre (SFF, horror, mystery, romance) book in translation - Death Takes Me - Cristina Rivera Garza, Translated by Robin Myers and Sarah Booker
• My Husband’s Wife - Alice Feeney (January 20th)
• On Sundays She Picked Flowers - Yah-Yah Scholfield (Jan 27th)

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God of the Woods - Liz Moore - next book club read! - March 6th

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• Paper Cut - Rachel Taff (Jan 27)
• The Body - Bethany C. Morrow (Feb 10)
• Someone Else’s Husband - Kimberly McCreight (June 16)
• Whidbey - T Kira Madden (March 10)
• Hooked: A Novel of Obsession - Asako Yuzuki, Translator Polly Barton (March 17)
• The Ending Writes Itself - Evelyn Clarke (April 7)
• The Star From Calcutta - Sujata Massey (March 3)
• The Keeper - Tana French (March 31)
• Last One Out - Jane Harper (April 14)

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Fern Michaels has died at 92

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Books Discussed

• Fiend - Alma Katsu
• Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw
• Victorian Psycho - Virginia Feito
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones
• The Witch’s Orchard - Archer Sullivan
• King of Ashes - S.A. Cosby
• They All Fall the Same - Wes Browne

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Books Discussed

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• Sisters of the Lost Nation - Nick Medina
• Blood Sisters - Vanessa Lillie
• Sisters in the Wind - Angeline Boulley
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones

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New Tana French novel!!

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Books Discussed

• The Dead Path - Stephen M. Irwin
• Thursday’s Children - Nicci French
• The Weight of Blood - Tiffany D. Jackson
• Night Film - Marisha Pessl
• Portrait of a Thief - Grace D. Li
• The Feather Thief - Kirk Wallace Johnson
• Blue Monday - Nicci French, Performed by Beth Chalmers
• The Kamogawa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwai, Translated by Jesse Kirkwood
• Restaurant of Lost Recipes - Hisashi Kashiwai, Translated by Jesse Kirkwood
• Menu of Happiness - Hisashi Kashiwai, Translated by Jesse Kirkwood
• Midnight Timetable - Bora Chung, Translated by Anton Hur

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• Fiend - Alma Katsu
• Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
• Death in Mud Lick - Eric Eyre
• Dreamland - Sam Quinones
• Dopesick - Beth Macy
• The Nature of Pain - Mandi Fugate Sheffel

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Books Discussed

• Fiend by Alma Katsu
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
• We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad
• Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
• The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025 edited by Don Winslow
• The Sister’s Curse by Nicola Solvinic

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Books Discussed

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• The Fiend - Alma Katsu
• The Cat Who Could Read Backwards - Lilian Jackson Braun
• The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra - Vaseem Khan
• Menu of Happiness - Hisashi Kashiwai, translated by Jesse Kirkwood
• Mockingbird Court: A Shady Hollow Mystery - Juneau Black
• The Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories - Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
• I Make My Own Fun - Hannah Beer

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Things Discussed

• Anthony Awards
• Latine Heritage Month (PRH)
• Tomes and Textiles

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Books Discussed

• Fiend - Alma Katsu
• The House in the Pines - Ana Reyes
• More Than You’ll Ever Know - Katie Gutierrez
• The Vampires of El Norte - Isabel Cañas
• Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice - Cristina Rivera Garza
• You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder - Maureen Johnson, Jay Cooper
• The Librarians - Sherry Thomas

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• Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù To Lead Netflix Series ‘All The Sinners Bleed’
• Noir at the Bar Kentucky Tour

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Books Discussed

• Burn Baby Burn - Meg Medina
• Mrs. Poe - Lynn Cullen
• The Possession of Alba Díaz - Isabel Cañas
• Little Deaths - Emma Flint
• Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror - Ashley Cullins
• Five Found Dead - Sulari Gentill

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• Murder, She Wrote is getting a film adaptation with Jamie Lee Curtis starring as Jessica Fletcher
• Women in Translation Month

Books Discussed

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• The Woman in the Purple Skirt - Natsuko Imamura; transl. by Lucy North
• I Remember You - Yrsa Sigurdardottir; transl. by Philip Roughton
• Thing We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enriquez, transl. by Megan McDowell
• Death Takes Me - Cristina Rivera Garza, transl. by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers
• The Faceless Thing We Adore - Hester Steel
• The Dead Husband Cookbook - Danielle Valentine

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The CWA Dagger Awards

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• The Good Daughter - Karin Slaughter
• While Justice Sleeps - Stacey Abrams
• Kala - Colin Walsh
• Natural Beauty - Ling Ling Huang
• The Confessions - Paul Bradley Carr
• A Twist of Fate - Se-Ah Jang, Trans. S. L. Park
• The Hunger - Alma Katsu

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Crime Reads Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2025

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• An Evil Premise - T. Marie Vandelly (August 12th)
• The Possession of Alba Díaz - Isabel Cañas (August 19)
• You Weren’t Meant to Be Human - Andrew Joseph White (September 9)
• Fiend - Alma Katsu (September 16th)
• We Love You, Bunny - Mona Awad (September 23rd)
• Dead Man Blues - S.D. House (October 14th)

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• Victorian Psycho - Virginia Feito 
• #FashionVictim - Amina Akhtar
• Murder at Gull’s Nest - Jess Kidd
• King of Ashes - S.A. Cosby
• Be Gay, Do Crime - edited by Kristel Buckley and Molly Llewellyn
• Welcome to Murder Week - Karen Dukess

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Books Discussed

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• They All Fall the Same - Wes Browne
• Cold to the Touch - Kerri Hakoda
• The Amish Wife: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy that Let a Killer Go Free - Gregg Olsen
• Find Her - Ginger Reno
• God of the Woods - Liz Moore
• The Man Made of Smoke - Alex North
• The Dark Maestro - Brendan Slocumb

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• Mystery author Peter Lovesey has died at 88.
• Kerry Greenwood, author of the Phryne [FRY-nee] Fisher mystery series, has died at 70.

1849 titles

835 unique authors

1147 unique titles

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1. Sujata Massey - 28
2. Tana French - 26
3. Riley Sager - 24
4. Alma Katsu - 20
5. Attica Locke, Jane Harper, SA Cosby - 17
6. Stephen King - 16
7. Angie Kim - 14
8. Stephen Graham Jones - 12
9. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Jesse Q. Sutanto - 11
10. Oyinkan Braithwaite, Alyssa Cole, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Wanda M. Morris, Ovidia Yu - 10

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Top Title Mentions:

1. The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey - 13
2. My Sister the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite - 10
3. Miracle Creek - Angie Kim - 9
4. When No One is Watching - Alyssa Cole - 8
5. Beneath the Mountain - Luca D’Andrea - 8
6. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land - Monica Hesse - 7
7. Final Girls - Riley Sager - 7
8. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century - Kirk Wallace Johnson - 7
9. The Frangipani Tree Mystery - Ovidia Yu - 7
10. The Jigsaw Man - Nadine Matheson - 7
11. The Satapur Moonstone - Sujata Massey 7
12. The Witch Elm - Tana French - 7
13. Theme Music - T. Marie Vandelly - 7
14. Winter Counts - David Heska Wanbli Weiden - 7

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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

When No One is Looking by Alyssa Cole

Himself by Jess Kidd

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Opal Watson: Private Eye by Brittany J. Thurman

Coram House by Bailey Seybolt

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Books Discussed

• Chasing the Boogeyman - Richard Chizmar
• Bunny - Mona Awad
• Night of the Mannequins - Stephen Graham Jones
• Haunt Sweet Home - Sarah Pinsker
• Murder at Gulls Nest - Jess Kid (April 8)
• The Museum Detective - Maha Khan Phillips

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News

Louise Penny announces that she will not have any book tour dates in the US

Books Discussed

Happiness Falls - Angie Kim

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century - Kirk Wallace Johnson

Those We Thought We Knew - David Joy

My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Serial Killer Support Group - Saratoga Schaefer

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man): A Vera Wong Novel - Jesse Q. Sutanto

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News

Bram Stoker Award finalists

Janelle Monáe to Play Tanya Smith, Con Artist Behind $40 Million Heist, in ‘Never Saw Me Coming’ Movie Adaptation

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Books Discussed

Katabasis - R.F. Kuang

Notes on an Execution - Danya Kukafka

Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll

Never Saw Me Coming - Vera Kurian

My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Broken Fields - Marcie R. Rendon

Black Tunnel White Magic: A Murder, a Detective’s Obsession, and ’90s Los Angeles at the Brink - Matthew McGough, Rick Jackson

Kills Well With Others - Deanna Raybourne

Accidents Happen - F.H. Batacan

The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York - Elon Green

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Books Discussed

Everywhere That Mary Went - Lisa Scottoline

Murder by Degrees - Ritu Mukerji

Penitence - Kristin Koval

The Jigsaw Man - Nadine Matheson

Notes on Surviving the Fire - Christine Murphy

The Dream Hotel - Laila Lalami

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News

• Edgar Award Nominees

Books Discussed

• Our Winter Monster - Dennis Mahoney
• All Her Little Secrets - Wanda M. Morris
• Anywhere You Run - Wanda M. Morris
• What You Leave Behind - Wanda M. Morris
• Jackal - Erin E. Adams
• From the Desk of Zoe Washington - Janae Marks
• My Darkest Prayer - S.A. Cosby

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News

Tom Holland is producing and starring in an adaptation of The Partner by John Grisham.

Everything you need to know about Osgood Perkins’ adaptation of The Monkey, based on the short story by Stephen King.

Books Discussed

Read Harder 2025

• Theme Music - T. Marie Vandelly
• The Dark Maestro - Brendan Slocumb
• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jessie Q. Sutanto
• A Sea of Unspoken Things - Adrienne Young
• Our Winter Monster - Dennis Mahoney
• Tell Me What You Did - Carter Wilson

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Books Discussed:

The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy - Andrea Dunlop & Mike Weber

The Dream Hotel - Laila Lalami

King of Ashes - SA Cosby

They All Fall the Same - Wes Browne

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones

Immaculate Conception - Ling Ling Huang

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NEWS

“Our Most Anticipated Crime Fiction Novels of 2024” (Novel Suspects)

BOOKS DISCUSSED

One of the Good Guys - Araminta Hall (January 9) 

The Night of the Storm - Nishita Parekh (Jan. 16th)

The Hunter - Tana French (March 5)

Blessed Water - Margot Douaihy (March 12th)

The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo (March 19th)

The Angel of Indian Lake - Stephen Graham Jones (March 26th)

Butter: A Novel of Food & Murder - Asako Yuzuki, transl. Polly Barton (April 16)

One of Us Knows - Alyssa Cole (April 16)

Supplication - Nour Abi-Nakhoul (May 24th)

Middle of the Night - Riley Sager (June 18)

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Things Mentioned

• Goodreads Choice Awards: Mystery / Thriller 
• Crime Reads Best Books
• Washington Post’s Best Mystery Novels
• Washington Post’s Best Thrillers 
• The Guardian’s Best Mystery and Thrillers
• Kirkus’s Best Mystery and Thrillers
• NYTs Best Crime Novels

Books Discussed

• The Hunter - Tana French
• The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo
• Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Guide Me Home - Attica Locke
• Model Home - Rivers Solomon
• Butter - Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton

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Books Discussed 

• Exposure - Ramona Emerson
• Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls - Jessica McDiarmid
• Bad Cree - Jessica Johns
• Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones
• Darkly - Marisha Pessl
• The Rival - Jane Pek

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News

Goodreads Choice Awards 2024

Books Discussed

• They All Fall the Same by Wes Browne
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr
• Bunny by Mona Awad
• Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
• Blue Monday by Nicci French
• Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
• Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga

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Books Discussed

• The Spite House - Johnny Compton
• The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story - Olga Tokarczuk, Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
• The Hunger - Alma Katsu
• Model Home - Rivers Solomon
• This Girl’s a Killer - Emma C. Wells
• Pony Confidential - Christina Lynch

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Things Mentioned

The New York Times’s Best Books of the 21st Century

Books Discussed

• The Guest List - Lucy Foley
• Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Erik Larson
• Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
• Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk, Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• The Reformatory - Tananarive Due, Chosen by Stephen Graham Jones NYTs
• It Will Only Hurt For a Moment - Delilah S. Dawson
• The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story - Olga Tokarczuk, Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• Curdle Creek - Yvonne Battle-Felton

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Discussed in this episode:

Operation Airdrop

The Message

The Mighty Red

Slaveroad

The Bog Wife

The Boyfriend

The Revenge of The Tipping Point

What I Ate in One Year

Sonny Boy

Meditations for Mortals

Absolution

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Books Discussed

The Guest List - Lucy Foley

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Burn Baby Burn - Meg Medina

House of Bone and Rain - Gabino Iglesias

A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories - Mariana Enriquez, Trans. Megan McDowell

The Hitchcock Hotel - Stephanie Wrobel

Ruin Road - Lamar Giles

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News

Anthony Award winners

Books Discussed

Heaven My Home - Attica Locke

Dublin Murder Squad series - Tana French

Cult Following: the Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations—And Take Over Our Lives - J.W. Ocker

Where They Last Saw Her - Marcie R. Rendon

Summers End - Juneau Black

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes - Hisashi Kashiwai, Trans. Jesse Kirkwood

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Things Mentioned

When in Romance

Books Discussed

The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev

Summers End by Juneau Black

Rules of Engagement by Selena Montgomery

Whiteout by Adriana Anders

Think of England by KJ Charles

The Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues by Beth Lincoln

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News

New S.A. Cosby Book with New Pine & Cedar Imprint

Things Mentioned

Women in Translation Month

Books Discussed 

Midnight Rooms - Danyae Coles

Butter - Asako Yuzuki, Translated from Japanese by Polly Barton

The Kamogawa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwai, Translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood

The Night Guest - Hildur Knútsdóttir, Translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal - out September 3rd, 2024

The Only Child - Mi-Ae Seo, Translated from Korean by Yewon Jung

The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer -  Rick Jervis

Death at Morning House - Maureen Johnson

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Make this your most bookish summer yet with personalized reading recommendations from Tailored Book Recommendations! Our bibliologists (aka professional book nerds) are standing by to help you find your next favorite read. Get your recommendations via email, or opt to receive hardcovers or paperbacks delivered right to your door. And with quarterly or annual plans available, TBR has something for every budget. Get started today from just $18!

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Books Discussed

A Copycat Conundrum - Lisa Yee; illustrated by Dan Santat

Saint of the Narrows Street - William Boyle

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone - Benjamin Stevenson

The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby - G. Z. Schmidt

The Woman in the Library - Sulari Gentil

The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues - Nova Jacobs

The Blonde Dies First - Joelle Wellington

Like Mother, Like Daughter - Kimberly McCreight

All the Sinners Bleed - S. A. Cosby

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Books Discussed

Chasing the Boogeyman - Richard Chizmar

Midnights Rooms - Donyae Coles

Like Mother, Like Daughter - Kimberly McCreight

Guide Me Home - Attica Locke

Exposure - Ramona Emerson

Model Home - Rivers Solomon

A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer - Maxie Dara

This Cursed House - Del Sander

Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable - Sarah Gerard

Our Kind of Game - Johanna Copeland

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Books Discussed

The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett

Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs

Survivor’s Guilt by Robyn Gigl

Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton

Bury Me When I'm Dead by Cheryl A. Head

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2024 ITW Thriller Award Winners

Books Discussed:

When No One is Watching - Alyssa Cole

Devolution - Max Brooks

The Loch - Steve Alten

Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay

Butter - Asako Yuzuki, Translated by Polly Barton

What You Leave Behind - Wanda M. Morris

Middle of the Night - Riley Sager

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Attica Locke is publishing the final book in her Highway 59 crime novel trilogy this summer!

Wake Up Dead Man

Books Discussed

The Hunter - Tana French 

The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo

Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enriquez

City Under One Roof - Iris Yamashita

The Only One Left - Riley Sager

Tell Me Who You Are - Louisa Luna

Looking for Smoke - K. A. Cobell

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Edgar Award Winners 2024

Pango Books

Books Discussed

Alma Katsu

The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen

The Return of Ellie Black - Emiko Jean

The Spirit Glass - Roshani Chokshi

Murder Casts a Shadow: A Hawai'i Mystery -  Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl

The Hunter’s Daughter - Nicola Solvinic

Woodworm - Layla Martínez

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Things Mentioned

Webster’s Dictionary defines “cult” as…

Books Discussed

Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty 

Bunny - Mona Awad

Catherine House - Elisabeth Thomas

Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon

Home Is Where The Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose

The Return of Ellie Black - Emiko Jean

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Edgar Awards Preview

Books Discussed

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto

All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby

Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders - John Glatt

Murder By Degrees - Ritu Mukerji

One of Us Knows - Alyssa Cole 

Butter - Asako Yuzuki, trans. Polly Barton 

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News

Netflix is planning to adapt Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series 

50 Cent is publishing a financial heist novel, which is not a sentence I ever expected to write

The 2024 ITW Thriller Award finalists have been announced

Things Mentioned

Pango Books

Books Discussed

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone - Benjamin Stevenson

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto

Ghost Squad - Claribel A. Ortega

The Screaming Staircase - Jonathan Stroud

Cold to the Touch - Kerri Hakoda

A Better World - Sarah Langan

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THINGS MENTIONED

Trans Rights Readathon March 22 - 29, 2024

BOOKS DISCUSSED

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Perfectly Nice Neighbors - Kia Abdullah

Beneath the Mountain - Luca D’Andrea, translated from Italian Howard Curtis

The Jigsaw Man - Nadine Matheson

Quicksand - Malin Persson Giolito, transl. from Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles

The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo

The Mystery Writer - Sulari Gentil

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NEWS

Audie Awards

Carol Shields Prize

Women’s Prize for Fiction

Rincey’s TikTok

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Her Name is Knight - Yasmin Angoe

Mother, Mother - Koren Zailckas

Shelter - Jung Yun

House of Cotton - Monica Brashears

Murder Road - Simone St. James

Finding Sophie - Imram Mahmood

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NEWS

Attica Locke shared that the third book in her Darren Matthews trilogy will be coming out this year!

2024 Agatha Award Nominees

BOOKS DISCUSSED

City Under One Roof - Iris Yamashita

You Will Never Be Found - Tove Alsterdal

Village In the Dark - Iris Yamashita

The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden

Island Witch - Amanda Jayatissa

The Bad Ones - Melissa Albert 

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NEWS

Edgar Award Nominees 

What the heck is going on with JD Barker??

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Bunny - Mona Awad

Nothing Gold Can Stay - Ron Rash

Never Saw Me Coming - Vera Kurian

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmidt

Goodbye Earl - Leesa Cross-Smith

For Your Own Good - Samantha Downing

Village In the Dark - Iris Yamashita

The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden

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NEWS

Crime Reads Most Anticipated Books of 2024

New Louise Penny Book

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan

Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris

Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall

Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper

Wander in the Dark by Jumata Emill

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez

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NEWS

“Our Most Anticipated Crime Fiction Novels of 2024” (Novel Suspects)

BOOKS DISCUSSED

One of the Good Guys - Araminta Hall (January 9) 

The Night of the Storm - Nishita Parekh (Jan. 16th)

The Hunter - Tana French (March 5)

Blessed Water - Margot Douaihy (March 12th)

The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo (March 19th)

The Angel of Indian Lake - Stephen Graham Jones (March 26th)

Butter: A Novel of Food & Murder - Asako Yuzuki, transl. Polly Barton (April 16)

One of Us Knows - Alyssa Cole (April 16)

Supplication - Nour Abi-Nakhoul (May 24th)

Middle of the Night - Riley Sager (June 18)

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Age of Vice - Deepti Kapoor

Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover Up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder - Piu Eatwell

All That Is Mine I Carry With Me - William Landay (March 7, 2023)

Red London - Alma Katsu (March 14, 2023)

Sing Her Down - Ivy Pochoda (May 23, 2023)

The Only One Left - Riley Sager (June 20, 2023)

Bad Cree - Jessica Johns (Doubleday, January 10th)

All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby (Flatiron, June 6th)

The Mistress of Bahtia House - Sujata Massey (Soho Press, July 11th

Don't Fear the Reaper - Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press, February 7th)

VenCo - Cherie Dimaline (William Morrow, February 7th)

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Red London - Alma Katsu

Happiness Falls - Angie Kim

Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll

All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby

I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makkai

Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell

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Things Mentioned

Goodreads Choice Awards

The Indigenous Reading Circle Book Club

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Twilight Falls - Juneau Black

And Then She Fell - Alicia Elliott

This Town Sleeps - Dennis E. Staples

The Berry Pickers - Amanda Peters

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology - ed. Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

The Fiction Writer - Jillian Cantor

The Folly - Gemma Amor

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Books Discussed

All the Fighting Parts - Hannah V. Sawyerr

Happiness Falls - Angie Kim

General Mystery: The Woman in the Library - Sulari Gentill

Psychological suspense/horror crossover: Help for the Haunted - John Searles

True crime: American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land - Monica Hesse

Middle Grade: Spirit Hunters - Ellen Oh

Literary Mystery: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

Cozy Mystery: Shady Hollow - Juneau Black

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

And Then She Fell - Alicia Elliot

Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse / Southern Vampire Mysteries)

A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising - Raymond A. Villareal

Vampires of El Norte - Isabel Cañas

Fangs - Sarah Andersen

The Reformatory - Tananarive Due

Blackwater Falls - Ausma Zehanat Khan

Blood Betrayal - Ausma Zehanat Khan

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Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes!

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NEWS

Time Magazine - 100 best mystery and thriller books of all time. 

Jessica Knoll’s latest novel, Bright Young Women, is getting a TV adaptation.

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Blackwater Falls - Ausma Zehanat Khan

While Justice Sleeps - Stacey Abrams

Vampires of El Norte - Isabel Cañas

Anywhere You Run - Wanda M. Morris

Mrs. Poe - Lynn Cullen

Anoka - Shane Hawk

• Indigenous Reading Circle

Firekeeper’s Daughter - Angeline Boulley

• Reese’s Book Club

A Haunting on the Hill: A Novel - Elizabeth Hand

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road With the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless - Laurah Norton

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Discussed in this episode:

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Beverly Cleary

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro

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NEWS

2023 Anthony Awards

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Small Spaces - Katherine Arden

The House in the Pines - Ana Reyes

Untamed Shore - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Ghost Squad - Claribel A. Ortega

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

Never Whistle at Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

Black Sheep - Rachel Harrison

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NEWS:

Sister Holiday Sequel Announced

BOOKS DISCUSSED:

Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery - Margot Douaihy

Happiness Falls - Angie Kim

The Maid - Nita Prose

Blackwater Falls - Ausma Zehanat Khan

Catherine House - Elisabeth Thomas

The Good House - Tananarive Due

The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby - G.Z. Schmidt

Perfectly Nice Neighbors - Kia Abdullah

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Exiles - Jane Harper

The Mistress at Bhatia House - Sujata Massey

I’m Not Done With You Yet - Jesse Q. Sutanto

Board to Death - CJ Connor

The Only One Left - Riley Sager

Red London - Alma Katsu

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NEWS

Hyperion Avenue is debuting a new Marvel crime series! These will be novels rather than graphic novels, and they’ll feature writing from S.A. Cosby, Lisa Jewell, and Alex Segura to kick things off.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

How Can I Help You - Laura Sims

The Aosawa Murders - Riku Onda, transl. Alison Watts

The Resting Place - Camilla Sten, transl. Alexandra Fleming

Our Share of Night - Mariana Enríquez, transl. Megan McDowell

Cursed Bunny - Bora Chung, transl. Anton Hur

Looking Glass Sound - Catriona Ward

The Dark Place - Britney S. Lewis

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NEWS

Shirley Jackson Awards

Long Island Serial Killer - murders & search written about in Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery - Robert Kolker

Literary Crime Fiction (Crime Reads)

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

Shelter by Jung Yun

Kala by Colin Walsh

Urgent Matters by Paula Rodríguez, Translated from Spanish by Sarah Moses

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NEWS

STOP THE PRESSES: TANA FRENCH HAS A NEW BOOK COMING IN 2024!!!!

Alyssa Cole also has a new thriller coming out!! 

Crime Reads Best of List for the first half of 2023

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Where All the Light Tends to Go - David Joy

Happiness Falls - Angie Kim (August 29)

Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll (Sept. 19)

The Reformatory - Tananarive Due (October 31) 

Here in the Dark: Stories - Meagan Lucas (July 27th)

Those We Thought We Knew - David Joy (August 1st)

I’m Not Done with You Yet - Jessica Q. Sutanto August 22nd)

How Can I Help You - Laura Sims

The Centre - Ayesha Manazir Siddigi

The Mistress of Bhatia House - Sujata Massey

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

The Postcard by Anne Berest, Translated from French by Tina Kover

So Cold the River by Michael Koryta

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

Summers Sons by Lee Mandelo

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman

Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith

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NEWS

Winners of the 2023 International Thriller Writer Awards

BOOKS DISCUSSED 

Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng , Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay, Narrated by Nick Landrum

For Your Own Good - Samantha Downing, Narrated by David Pittu

Warrior Girl Unearthed - Angeline Boulley, Narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc

The Only One Left - Riley Sager

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories - Agustina Bazterrica, Translated by Sarah Moses

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NEWS

Megan Abbott’s Beware the Woman is being turned into a film.

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Mary Rose - Geoffrey Girard

Reprieve - James Han Mattson

Dirt Creek - Hayley Scrivenor 

Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw

Summer Sons - Lee Mandelo

All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby

Beware the Woman - Megan Abbott 

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NEWS

“A Utah mom wrote a kids’ book about grief after her husband’s death. Now she’s charged with his murder” (CNN)

Books Mentioned

All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby

Cutting Teeth - Chandler Baker

The Trauma Beat: A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News - Tamara Cherry 

Your House Will Pay - Steph Cha

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto

Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

Death by Dumpling - Vivien Chien

The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy - Joe Sexton

The Night Flowers - Sara Herchenroether

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NEWS

The 2023 Edgar Awards have been announced!

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Devolution – Max Brooks

The Martian – Andy Weir

The Hunger – Alma Katsu

Scorched Grace – Margot Douaihy

Mapping the Interior – Stephen Graham Jones

Fixit – Joe Ide

Warrior Girl Unearthed – Angeline Boulley

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NEWS

Anne Perry Dies at 84 (Book Riot)

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice – Cristina Rivera Garza

She Is a Haunting – Trang Thanh Tran

The Getaway – Lamar Giles

Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley

Sadie – Courtney Summers

Sisters of the Lost Nation – Nick Medina

Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many – Mona Gable

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NEWS

“Oscar Isaac will play a sexy Kurt Vonnegut in a new crime series.” (Hey, I’m just quoting the experts here!)

Amazon has canceled Three Pines after just one season.

Amazon is adapting E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars as a series.

BOOKS DISCUSSED

The Woman in the Library – Sulari Gentill

Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls – Kathleen Hale

Shutter – Ramona Emerson

Devil House – John Darnielle

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them – Timothy Egan

House of Cotton by Monica Brashears

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

The Resemblance – Laura Nossett

The Devil Takes You Home – Gabino Iglesias

Scorched Grace – Margaret Douaihy

On the Savage Side – Tiffany McDaniel

When These Mountains Burn – David Joy

Red London – Alma Katsu

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

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BOOKS MENTIONED

 I Have Some Questions for You – Rebecca Makkai

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels – Beth Lincoln, Illustrated by Claire Powell

Malamander (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea Book 1) – Thomas Taylor and Tom Booth

The Dare: Friends, Family, and Other Eerie Mysteries by Cynthea Liu

Spirit Hunters – Ellen Oh [

When You Reach Me – Rebecca Stead

The Golden Spoon – Jess Maxwell 

Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector – Amit Katwala

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NEWS

Walter Mosely has been awarded the 2023 CWA Diamond Dagger Award

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix

The Violin Conspiracy – Brendan Slocumb

All Her Little Secrets / Anywhere You Run – Wanda M. Morris

My Darkest Prayer – S.A. Cosby

S.A. Cosby on the New York Times Book Review podcast

The Cutting Season – Attica Locke

Scorched Grace – Margot Douaihy

I Have Some Questions For You – Rebecca Makkai

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

VenCo – Cherie Dimaline

How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix

Jackal – Erin E. Adams

See What I Have Done – Sarah Schmidt

Devil House – John Darnielle

Bad Cree – Jessica Johns

Such Pretty Flowers – KL Cerra

Harriet Spies – Elana K. Arnold 

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NEWS

Edgar Award Nominees!

Crime Reads’ Most Anticipated Crime Novels of 2023

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It – Elle Cosimano

Arsenic & Adobo – Mia P. Manansala

Death by Dumpling – Vivien Chien

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley

The Exiles – Jane Harper

Promise Boys – Nick Brooks

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Age of Vice – Deepti Kapoor

Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover Up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder – Piu Eatwell

All That Is Mine I Carry With Me – William Landay (March 7, 2023)

Red London – Alma Katsu (March 14, 2023)

Sing Her Down – Ivy Pochoda (May 23, 2023)

The Only One Left – Riley Sager (June 20, 2023)

Bad Cree – Jessica Johns (Doubleday, January 10th)

All the Sinners Bleed – S.A. Cosby (Flatiron, June 6th)

The Mistress of Bahtia House – Sujata Massey (Soho Press, July 11th

Don’t Fear the Reaper – Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press, February 7th)

VenCo – Cherie Dimaline (William Morrow, February 7th)

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NEWS

Trailer for 65 (Adam Driver + time travel + dinosaurs!!)

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Things We Found When the Water Went Down – Tegan Ni Swanson

The House Across the Lake – Riley Sager

Jackal – Erin Adams

The Hacienda – Isabel Canas

Hokuloa Road – Elizabeth Hand

The Weight of Blood – Tiffany D. Jackson

Devil House – John Darnielle

The Violin Conspiracy – Brendan Slocum

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NEWS

Goodreads Choice Award Winners 2022

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

They’re Going to Love You – Meg Howrey

Hidden Pictures – Jason Rekulak

Cherish Farrah – Bethany C. Morrow

Hide – Kiersten White

Red Widow – Alma Katsu

Shutter – Ramona Emerson

My Darkest Prayer – S.A. Cosby

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City – Tanya Talaga

“Harvard announces return of Native hair samples” (Indian Country Today)

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York – Elon Green

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing – Sonia Faleiro

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land – Monica Hesse

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of Double Murder in Appalachia – Emma Copley Eisenberg

Interview with Emma Copley Eisenberg

Eisenberg’s Articles

• “Fact Checking Is the Core of Nonfiction Writing. Why Do So Many Publishers Refuse to Do It?” (Esquire)
• “The Tale of Queer Appalachia: A popular Instagram account raises funds for LGBTQ people in Appalachia. But does the money really go where it’s supposed to?” (Washington Post Magazine)
• “I was an AmeriCorps Member in West Virginia: The Benefits and Limitations of National Service” (TIME)

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City – Tanya Talaga

Protect ICWA Info

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York – Elon Green

Her Name is Knight – Yasmin Angoe

Death in the Family – Tessa Wegert

Ghost Squad – Claribel A. Ortega

Sadie – Courtney Summers

The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey

The Satapur Moonstone – Sujata Massey

The Bombay Prince – Sujata Massey

The Mistress of Bhatia House – Sujata Massey

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

My Heart Is a Chainsaw – Stephen Graham Jones

Shutter – Ramona Emerson

Winter Counts – David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Moon of the Crusted Snow – Waubgeshig Rice

Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley

The Resemblance – Lauren Nossett

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022 – edited Jess Walter and Steph Cha

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NEWS

Angela Lansbury, who played Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote, has died at 96 (Book Riot)

Devil in the White City loses its director and Keanu Reeves in the same week (Indie Wire)

Kenneth Branagh is making a third Poirot mystery, which will be based on the novel Hallowe’en Party  (People)

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Black Folk Could Fly – Randall Kenan

Out – Natsuo Kirino; transl. Stephen Snyder

The Dinner – Herman Koch; transl. Sam Garrett

My Sister the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite

For Your Own Good – Samantha Downing

Anywhere You Run – Wanda M. Morris

Lavender House – Lev AC Rosen

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THINGS MENTIONED

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Shrines of Gaiety – Kate Atkinson

What’s Done in Darkness – Laura McHugh

The Lighthouse Witches – CJ Cooke

The Year of the Witching – Alexis Henderson

The Women Could Fly – Megan Giddings

The Witches: Salem, 1692 – Stacy Schiff

Blackmail and Bibingka – Mia P. Manansala

Jackal – Erin E. Adams

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NEWS

Anthony Award Winners Announced (Bouchercon 2022)

Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools (Pen America)

“Lechelt: On banning books. Specifically, ‘Monday’s Not Coming’” (London Times-Mirror)

“‘It’s surreal’: Collierville Schools removes LGBTQ+ books from library shelves” (ABC)

“Indian River County School Board refuses to ban most of the 156 books on group’s hit list” (TCPalm.)

“‘This is wrong’: Central York students protest ban on books about racism” (ABC)

“Klein Independent School District Book Removals” (IDRA)

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Revelator – Daryl Gregory

The Jigsaw Man – Nadine Matheson

Monday’s Not Coming – Tiffany D. Jackson

White Rabbit – Caleb Roehrig

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

The New Jim Crow by Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The Getaway – Lamar Giles

Next of Kin – Kia Abdullah

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NEWS

Inventing Anna ignites a defamation lawsuit against Netflix. by Winston Cho (Hollywood Reporter)

Natalie Portman series Lady in the Lake hits pause after threats of violence and extortion by Nick Romano (Entertainment)

Val McDermid reveals ‘Queen of Crime’ legal threat from Agatha Christie estate by Brian Ferguson (The Scotsman)

BOOKS DISCUSSED

The Jigsaw Man – Nadine Matheson

Perfect Days – Raphael Montes, transl. Alison Entrekin

The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey

Quicksand – Malin Persson Giolito, transl. Rachel Willson-Broyles

A Death in Door County – Annelise Ryan

The Enigma of Room 622 – Joël Dicker, transl. Robert Bononno

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

My Sister Rosa – Justine Larbalestier

More Than You’ll Ever Know – Katie Gutierrez

Good Neighbors – Sarah Langan

Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng

Murder in Westminster – Vanessa Riley

Real Bad Things – Kelly J. Ford

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

A Master of Djinn by P.Djeli Clark

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Out by Natsuo Kirino, Translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder

The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo, Translated by Chi-Young Kim

People Like Them by Semira Sidra, Translated by Lara Vergnaud

Shutter by Ramona Emerson

Kismet by Amina Akhtar

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

The Chain by Adrian McKinty

The Getaway by Lamar Giles

One by One by Ruth Ware

Pretty Things by Janelle Brown

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich 

Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman

The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Good Rich People – Eliza Jane Brazier

The Devotion of Suspect X – Keigo Higashino

Never Have I Ever – Joshilyn Jackson

Under Lock and Skeleton Key – Gigi Pandian

We Lie Here – Rachel Howzell Hall

Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod – Casey Sherman

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Books Discussed

The Echo Wife – Sarah Gailey

Death Prefers Blondes – Caleb Roehrig

Ace of Spades – Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Verifiers – Jane Pek

Harlem Sunset – Nekesa Afia

Unnatural Ends – Christopher Huang

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Books Discussed

Vicious Creatures – Ashton Noone

Hokuloa Road – Elizabeth Hand

Kismet – Amina Akhtar

The Hacienda – Isabel Canas

Siren Queen – Nghi Vo

The Cherry Robbers – Sarai Walker

The Woman in the Library – Sulari Gentill

Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods – Lyndsie Bourgon

Vera Kelly: Lost and Found – Rosalie Knecht

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Books Discussed

Final Girls by Riley Sager

Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry #1) by Sujata Massey

My Heart is a Chainsaw (The Lake Witch Trilogy #1) by Stephen Graham Jones

Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder (A Marion Lane Mystery) by T.A.Willberg

New Books

More Than You’ll Ever Know – Katie Gutierrez

Counterfeit – Kirstin Chen

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Books Discussed

Shining Girls – Lauren Beukes

Dark Matter – Blake Crouch

The Anamoly– Herve Le Tellier

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North

With Prejudice – Robin Peguero

Hide – Kiersten White

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Razorblade Tears – S.A. Cosby

Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice – Ellen McGarrahan

The Forest of Stolen Girls – June Hur

Never Saw Me Coming – Vera Kurian

The Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley

Clark and Division – Naomi Hirahara

Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders – Kathryn Miles

The Hacienda – Isabel Cañas

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 Razorblade Tears – S.A. Cosby

 The Conductors – Nicole Glover

The Intuitionist– Colson Whitehead

Tangerine by Christine Mangan

Miracle Creek – Angie Kim

Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn

Her Name is Knight – Yasmin Angoe

I’ll Be You – Janelle Brown

The Wild Girls – Phoebe Morgan

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Books Discussed

A Death in the Family – Tessa Wegert

Under Lock & Skeleton Key – Gigi Pandian

Eighth Detective – Alex Pavesii

They All Fall Down – Rachel Howzell Hall

New Releases

Portrait of a Thief – Grace D. Li

Sense and Second-Degree Murder – Tirzah Price

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Red Widow by Alma Katsu

Her Name is Knight by Yasmin Angoe

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh

Empire of the Wild by Cherie Demaline

The Appeal by Janice Halett

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

Her Last Affair by John Searles

Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto (release date March 29th)

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Books Discussed

Red Widow by Alma Katsu

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

Confessions by Kanae Minato

The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin

Moon of the Crusted Snow Waubgeshig Rice

The Secret Talker by Geling Yan

Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett

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