Hello mystery fans! My happy sigh this week is the trailer release and date announcement for season two of Heartstopper on Netflix. The world needs more cinnamon rolls!
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Bookish Goods
Mrs. White Madeline Kahn Clue Flames Sticker by BadCultPaintings
For fans of the film Clue and this great quote! ($4)
New Releases
You Never Know by Connie Briscoe
For fans of domestic suspense with the trope of “do you know who you married?”
Alexis Roberts left the relationship she was in for Marcus, an attorney she met at a fundraiser. Those in her life had concerns: things were going too fast and there were rumors about what happened to his previous wife. But Alexis married the handsome, wealthy man anyways because that’s what you do when you meet the man of your dreams. Now, with Marcus away, Alexis is attacked in her home, barely escaping. Is it time she finally start taking a closer look at who she married?
The Eden Test by Adam Sternbergh
For fans of domestic suspense.
The title refers to a seven-day retreat where couples go and get a daily question to discuss to work on their marriage. The idea is that you either end up strengthening, solving problem(s), or realizing it’s time to pull the plug on your marriage. It’s where Daisy has decided to take Craig. What neither knows about the other is that Daisy has been hiding since before their marriage and Craig has been having an affair and has his bags packed, ready to leave with his mistress. Now they have one week to figure out if the past will make or break them…
(TW stalker/ domestic violence/ past miscarriage remembered)
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Riot Recommendations
In case you want to play what’s on my library list, here are the last two audiobooks I added to my Overdrive and Hoopla account.
Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1) by Qiu Xiaolong
For fans of procedurals and watching cases get solved step by step.
Set in post-Tiananmen Square China in the ’90s, Shanghai Special Cases Bureau Inspector Chen Cao gets a case that complicates his life by challenging what he’s always believed. The department he works for was recently created to look at political cases and he’s already being doubted as the head. His current case involves a murdered woman, Guan Hongying, who kept her private life guarded, making Chen and Detective Yu’s interviewing of those who knew Guan rather difficult — especially since the person she presented as, a National Model Worker, may not have really been all there was to Guan.
Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King
For fans of past murder mysteries, communes, and past and present storylines.
In Palo Alto, California the Gardener Estate was once the home of a very influential family. Now San Francisco PD’s Cold Case Unit Inspector Raquel Laing has been called because a body buried long ago has been found. Was it the victim of a 1970s serial killer? Or something to do with the time when the Gardener Estate was turned into a commune?
News and Roundups
Detroit author’s novel on racism’s toll inspired by tragedy in her family
Disney Files First Amendment Lawsuit Against Ron DeSantis Over Florida Theme Park Takeover
Defining the “Cat and Mouse” Genre in Movies and TV Shows
The biggest twist in the new mystery story “written” by artificial intelligence? It’s pretty good!
Stanley Tucci ‘tried to get out of’ playing Lovely Bones serial killer
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