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New Releases
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris
For fans of crime graphic novels, love of monsters, and clever middle grade sleuths!
This completes the two part story, so you’re going to want to start with My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One. If, like me, you’ve been eagerly and impatiently awaiting the completion of the story, yay, it’s finally here!
The overall story: This book is the graphic diary of ten-year-old Karen Reyes, who is obsessed with monsters and is trying to figure out life in her uptown Chicago neighborhood during the ’60s. Living with her mom, who is ill, and her brother, who is artistic and always in trouble, Reyes escapes into pulp magazines and B-movie horror. When an upstairs neighbor is murdered, Reyes puts herself on the case!
The Last To Pie (Pies Before Guys Mystery #3) by Misha Popp
For fans of vigilantes, desserts, and a tiny sprinkle of magic!
Daisy Ellery has the gift of being able to infuse food with emotion, which allows her to create deadly pies for awful men — her side business. She’s not a monster and gives the abusers an opportunity to right their ways before eating the pies, but if they don’t, she lets them eat the poisoned pies—with the benefit that if anyone else eats the pie, no harm will come to them. Daisy’s new case has her hesitating to take it: while the woman says she’s in an abusive relationship, Daisy thinks there is a chance she’s being set up by the police instead — until the woman goes missing and Daisy sets off to find her, placing herself in danger!
If you’d like to start at the beginning, pick up Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies.
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Riot Recommendations
Here are two backlist titles that both have “questions”!
The Night in Question by Nic Joseph
For fans of murder mysteries that question the line of good vs bad, with inserted chapters from the detectives’ POV!
Paula’s husband was in an accident that left him with a disability that he has adjusted to. Paula, on the other hand, is listening to the doctor who wants her husband to try an experimental surgery in Europe at the cost of $200,000. As a rideshare driver, she ends up blackmailing a recent passenger in hopes of getting the money, but when she suspects the passenger of murder, she finds herself cornered: how can she go to the police without implicating herself in blackmail?
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
For fans of a university setting, return to past school, a past murder mystery being reexamined, and a true crime podcast host!
Bodie Kane, now a popular podcaster, once attended the New England boarding school Granby School. She’s been asked to now teach a film class, which one would think she’d decline, based on having not enjoyed her time as a student and her roommate having been murdered. But she accepts and ends up having one of her students decide to focus her assignment on the solved murder case of Kane’s roommate. Maybe they got it wrong the first time…
(TW brief mention past drug overdose, brief mention past addiction and death unknown if suicide, detail/ brief mention past domestic abuse/ mentions sexual assault case/ eating disorder/ rumors of statutory student teacher/ past memory possible suicide attempt/ recounts past groping/ mentions suicide cases, method mentioned/ mentions of terminal cancer diagnosis and death)
News and Roundups
The Ripped Bodice event: “To celebrate, we’re hosting an LA book launch with Justine Pucella Winans on Friday, June 7th at 7pm. They will chat about their queer mystery with Edward Underhill. There will be a book signing to follow. This is a ticketed event including the book. Can’t attend the event? Signed books from Justine and Edward are available for LA in-store pick-up and shipping. Must order by May 31st.”
Samantha Irby Substack: “an exhaustively researched compilation of the greatest black erotic thrillers ever made, i.e. the reason i still pay full price for a subscription to starz!“
Jake Gyllenhaal Repeatedly Insists He’s Not Guilty in Presumed Innocent Trailer
Dexter Prequel Series Casts Patrick Gibson, Christian Slater, Molly Brown in Lead Roles
7 Japanese Murder Mystery Novels To Add To Your Reading List
Murders solved by senior citizens? How ‘cozy mystery’ books combine crime with comfort
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