Hello mystery fans! Hope you have a good book to read this weekend!
From Book Riot and Around the Internet
The Best Mystery Audiobooks for Road Trips
7 Books About Cults That Demonstrate How Dangerous Groupthink Really Is
Sponsored By The Shimmer by Carsten Stroud, from MIRA Books
A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Redding and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and the driver of the SUV fleeing. Redding stays on the hunt, driven by the trace memory that he knows that running woman.
Redding and his partner chase a seductive serial killer who can ride ‘The Shimmer’ across decades. The stakes turn brutal when Jack, whose wife and child died in a crash the previous year, faces a terrible choice: help catch the killer, or change time itself and try to save his wife and child.
Catapult has a monthly column that explores out of print African-American authors and last month the spotlight was on Charlotte Carter and her noir novel Rhode Island Red. (While the paperback/hardcover are out of print you can still read it in ebook.)
Giveaway: Book Riot is giving away $500 to the bookstore of your choice! Enter here you lucky people!
News and Adaptations
Here’s the official trailer for the adaptation of The Girl in the Spider’s Web, which will be in theaters November 9th.
Rea Frey’s Not Her Daughter, releasing in August, has sold its film and television rights. The novel is “The story of a child kidnapped away from a mother who isn’t sure she wants her back.” Well now I’ve got to read it to find out why…
Kelley Armstong’s popular Canadian Rockton crime thriller trilogy has sold TV rights to Temple Street Productions (Orphan Black and Queer As Folk). If you like to read the books first: City of the Lost; A Darkness Absolute; This Fallen Prey.
The Lambda Literary Awards were announced and here are the crime winners: The Fact of A Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (Review); Night Drop by Marshall Thornton; Huntress by A.E. Radley.
After Hulu decided not to go forward with its adaptation series of Joe Hill’s crime graphic novel Locke & Key, it seems Netflix has swooped in and is locking in that deal. But it won’t be the Hulu series– apparently Netflix’s deal is for the rights and there will be redevelopment and recasting. Guess we’ll have to stay tuned.
Not an adaptation but if you’ve been wanting more Gillian Flynn in your life she co-wrote the upcoming thriller Windows with Steve McQueen. Watch the trailer here.
The BBC’s fantastic Killing Eve (adapted from Luke Jennings’ Codename Villanelle) will stream later this year on Hulu.
True Crime
California judge unsealed suspected Golden State Killer’s search and arrest warrants.
An editor from The Staircase apparently fell for the doc’s subject and I swear Twitter always gives me the news I don’t want to know. Here’s the thread.
And in fake news: The Twitter Crime Mystery that Gripped Spain “Police! I have just resolved a crime via Twitter! You need to deal with it immediately,” wrote a Spanish social media user going by the name of Mr Brightside on Saturday afternoon.
Kindle Deals
Penance by Kanae Minato, Philip Gabriel (translation) is $2.99! (Dark, character driven crime novel: full review)
All three books in Marcia Clark’s (yes, that one) Samantha Brinkman series are each $1.99: Blood Defense; Moral Defense; Snap Judgement. (review)
Currently Reading:
I really enjoyed William Shaw’s procedural The Birdwatcher (review) and had wanted more of one of the side characters. And my wish was granted with Salt Lane which follows DS Cupidi as the main character. So far it’s really scratching my itch for a good procedural.
After Blackout I was left with wanting more cults so I’m making my way through Cult X which has the bonus for fans of university lectures as it also goes into religious/philosophical/scientific lectures.
And I’ve been craving more YA mysteries lately so I started, and am really enjoying, Marisha Pessl’s Neverworld Wake. It has a super strong voice from the beginning.
Browse all the books recommended in Unusual Suspects previous newsletters on this shelf. And here’s an Unusual Suspects Pinterest board.
Until next time, keep investigating! And in the meantime come talk books with me on Twitter, Instagram, and Litsy–you can find me under Jamie Canaves.
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