Hello mystery fans! This always makes me smile and hits me in the nostalgia feels. As for mysteries, let’s check out some new releases, ghostly backlist, something to watch, and news.
Bookish Goods
Library Card Sticky Notes by PeanutButterTaco
Along with journals, there is no such thing in mind as having enough sticky notes. ($3)
New Releases
By the Time You Read This I’ll Be Gone (Murder, She Wrote #1) by Stephanie Kuehn
I was in the middle of writing this when the Angela Lansbury news broke đ Jessica Fletcher has a grandniece following in her footsteps! Bea Fletcher is a teen who writes a cold case column for a website. One night she’s meant to meet up with her best friend Jackson and he doesn’t show up. Startled, she runs off and ends up instead meeting three students from the elite boarding school Broadmoor Academy. It turns out they’re playing a secret society game and she’ll have to join in if she wants to find Jackson…I’m halfway through the audiobook and I like that it’s written as a modern thriller with teens, and mental health, in mind rather than trying to create another version of the show Murder, She Wrote.
Enola Holmes: Mycroft’s Dangerous Game by Nancy Springer, Giorgia Sposito (Illustrator), Mickey George (Writer), Enrica Angiolini (Colorist)
For fans of graphic novels and the Enola Holmes Netflix adaptation! It’s a new story that is the life of Enola Holmes between the first film and the upcoming new film. The younger teen sister of Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes sets out to find not only Mycroft, who has been taken by anarchists, but especially to retrieve something he has taken from her…
And here’s the second trailer for Enola Holmes 2.
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Riot Recommendations
Let’s do books with (friendly) ghosts! Â â I know I’ve mentioned it a bunch but if you still haven’t read Justina Ireland’s Ophie’s Ghosts, it’s a must.
Murder in G Major (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries #1) by Alexia Gordon
Gethsemane Brown is an American musician who takes a job teaching schoolboys in Ireland. That’s where she’ll obviously have to solve a murder mystery – because it’s a cozy! – and also meet the ghost of the once cottage owner. He’d like Gethsemane to help prove he did not kill his wife, as accused. Bonus: there are five books in this delightful series!
I Woke Up Dead at the Mall by Judy Sheehan
At the Mall of America, 16-year-old Sarah makes a few discoveries: she’s dead, murdered, and the mall is purgatory – at least according to her death coach. If she doesn’t want to become a permanent mall walker, she’ll have to figure out what happened and make peace…
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Luckiest Girl Alive on Netflix: Based on the 2015 title by Jessica Knoll and for fans of the rich white people dramas with the unlikable lead. Ani FaNelli reinvented herself as an adult, now a NY magazine writer engaged to a wealthy man, she’s about to have her past life collide with her new life…Starring Mila Kunnis, Finn Wittrock, Connie Britton, Jennifer Beals â you can watch the trailer here.
(If you need a heads up re triggers I’m going to give two main ones: sexual assault and school shooting)
News and Roundups
Book Riot Will Match Your Donation to Taller Salud for Hurricane Relief in Puerto Rico
All The Books!: Liberty and Vanessa talk new releases including The Storytellerâs Death by Ann DĂĄvila Cardinal, Undercover Latina by Aya de LeĂłn, and Sinister Graves (A Cash Blackbear Mystery Book 3) by Marcie Rendon.
Baltimore prosecutors drop charges against Adnan Syed in Serial murder case
Angela Lansbury, Murder, She Wrote and Beauty and the Beast Star, Dies at 96
Sat Oct 22: Presente!: Latina Girls Standing up for Justice
Louise Penny’s Three Pines Amazon Prime Trailer
Crime Reporting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Devil in the White City Loses âTĂRâ Director Todd Field Days After Keanu Reeves Departs
Kenneth Branagh Making Third Poirot Murder Mystery with Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan and Michelle Yeoh
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Until next time, keep investigating! In the meantime, come talk books with me on Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, and Litsy âyou can find me under Jamie CanavĂ©s.
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