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Hello mystery fans! It’s the end of the year so publishing is starting to take some naps in preparation for the big book explosion that comes in the new year. But I still have links to click, Kindle deals and such. Next week, I’ll have my favorite reads of 2019 and yours–so many of you told me your favorite reads, I love it!
From Book Riot And Around The Internet
United States of a Mystery: Essential Georgia Crime Fiction
8 Edge-of-Your-Seat Thriller Novels You’ll Want to Read In 2020
QUIZ: How Many Teen Detectives Can You Name?
Enter to Win $50 to Your Favorite Indie Bookstore
“When I sold [Gone Girl] in 2006, no one wanted it,” Gillian Flynn told EW last year. “They said men don’t like to read about women, and women don’t like women like this woman. We’ve come a long way, but it’s important to have this vocabulary. It’s dangerous to pretend women don’t have anger.” —The unreliable narrator is the biggest book trend of the decade
Take a break from turkey and stuffing to dig into these 6 paperback titles
Crimen Latino: Latin Crime Fiction Is the Genre’s New Wave
News And Adaptations
I am making ALL the popcorn for USA Networks’ adaptation of Megan Abbott’s Dare Me!
Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs and Alison Gaylin’s If I Die Tonight adaptations in the works.
Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen Are Incredible in ‘The Good Liar’ Adaptation
Dean Koontz reveals 6 new thrillers — and why you won’t find them in bookstores
Kindle Deals
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li is $4.99. A novel Li wrote a decade after having been raped, exploring her ordeal from her and the attackers point of view. (Review)
Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine is $1.99 and one of those books I’ve randomly had recommended to me a lot so time for me to read it!
A Bit Of My Week In Reading
The end of the year always makes me restless to read all the books I was really excited to read outside of the crime genre so that’s what I’ve been doing. My libro.fm pick last month was Jaquira Díaz’s memoir Ordinary Girls (all the trigger warnings) and I loved it! This has certainly been an exceptional year for memoirs/nonfic, especially new voices loudly proclaiming they are here. I inhaled Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (TW suicide) which is funny and perfectly weird and Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet, which bathed my soul with violetas. They all have fantastic narrators on the audiobooks too!
My crime reads were/are: The Missing American by Kwei Quartey which I really liked–especially the internet scam view it gave and I’m excited it starts a series! (TW attempted rape on page/ suicide on page/ heads-up for ableism re autism) And I’m halfway into The Burn (Betty Rhyzyk #2) by Kathleen Kent and I love this character and series so much–if you’ve yet to read the first, The Dime, I highly recommend you do so before the sequel release next year.
Hope you’re reading something great!
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Until next time, keep investigating! In the meantime, come talk books with me on Twitter, Instagram, and Litsy–you can find me under Jamie Canavés.
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