Author: Jamie Canaves

Hello mystery fans! We have made it to November and I have already had my first pecan pie! Hope you’re having lovely weather, have a great book, and get to solve a mystery.

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From Book Riot And Around The Internet

Rincey and Katie talk news, what they’re reading, and upcoming mysteries they’re excited about on Read or Dead!

8 of the Best Historical Mysteries

The Best Places To Find Indie Mysteries

10 Supernatural Mystery & Thriller Novels That Are Perfect For Fall

Mystery Novels and Thrillers for Horror Fans

7 Unreliable Books With Narrators Who Love to Keep You Guessing

Adaptations And News

Best Books of 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards are here. Lots of great choices for Best Mystery & Thrillers–super thrilled to see The Widows of Malabar Hill and a few of my favorites from this year!

Curious about who’s joining the Veronica Mars revival on Hulu? Here’s what is known so far.

Leonardo DiCaprio will star and Martin Scorsese will direct the adaptation of David Grann’s true crime Killers of the Flower Moon.

Next on my podcast list is Lethal Lit: A Tig Torres Mystery. Alex Segura & Monica Gallagher wrote the six-part YA mystery podcast that follows Tig Torres, a teen detective, investigating the Lit Killer murders.

True Crime

Remains at Vatican property probed for links to 35-year-old mystery

Sundance Now Partners On Major Scandinavian True Crime Series ‘The Oslo Killing’

Death Becomes Us festival brings a true-crime wave to D.C.

‘Welcome To Murdertown’: Investigation Discovery Orders Small-Town True Crime Doc From Britespark

Kindle Deals

A Beautiful Poison by Lydia Kang is .99 cents and I just bought that so fast! It’s historical mystery and she wrote The Impossible Girl which I enjoyed so much so I’m excited!

She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper is $1.99! This is one of my favorite crime novels so anytime I see it at a ridiculous price I’m going to put it here. (Review)

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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Hi mystery fans!

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Sixteen-year-old Jamie McGuiness’s sister is dead. Sinking into a deep depression, he frequents the lighthouse where her body was discovered, unaware of the sinister forces surrounding him. When an angry spirit latches onto Jamie, he’s led down a dark and twisted path, one that uncovers old family secrets, destroying everything Jamie ever believed in. Caught between the world of the living and the vengeful dead, Jamie fights the pull of the other side. It’s up to Jamie to settle old scores or no one will rest in peace — but, first, he has to survive.

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Japanese Crime! (TW suicide/ child death/ attempted rape/ eating disorder)

The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa, Simon Grove (Translation): Another great Japanese crime novel! First, I’ll say that if you enjoy Japanese crime novels pick this one up without knowing anything. If you need to know what you’re getting into: It’s set in Tokyo in the ’60s and is written almost in three parts. The beginning is following a cad, Ichiro Honda, who “hunts” women. That’s his term for going out at night to find a woman he can “finesse” into sleeping with him. He even keeps a diary of his “hunts.” If you’re not already rolling your eyes let me just drop the nugget that he’s married and his wife has no idea about this. The second part of the novel follows Honda’s appeal lawyer, after Honda is convicted of murdering women he had one night stands with, as he tries to piece together if the police have the right man. And then the third part, well that shows you how all the puzzle pieces of this mystery go together. This was interesting, and a bit banana pants, and a great read. I could tell you a lot more but what would be the fun in that?!

Another Great Nonviolent True Crime

The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams: I keep accidentally calling this book the “dinosaur hunter” because in a way it feels that way. People go hunting for dinosaur bones, unearth them, put them together and sell them. The problem is, who do the dinosaur bones really belong to? The book starts with an auction for a Tyrannosaurus skeleton that sells for a million dollars. A million! That NY sale, by a Florida man, alerts the Mongolian government. And so the question is who do dinosaur bones (fossils) belong to, who gets to keep them, and should anyone be allowed to sell them? Like The Feather Thief and Bad Blood this is another super interesting nonfiction book that is a serious page-turner. It follows a bunch of really interesting people, all somehow connected with “dinosaur hunting,” the community of scientist trying to stop this, and it also takes mini history tours through Mongolia. I really hope this trend of nonviolent true crime, and narrative nonfiction, continues because I need more!

Recently Released

The Truth About Aaron: My Journey to Understand My Brother by Jonathan Hernández (TBR: true crime memoir) (TW suicide)

Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink (TBR: The horror mystery podcast is now a book. A truck driver is searching across the US for her missing wife.)

Find Me Gone by Sarah Meuleman (TBR: Past and present mystery.)

Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard #2) by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch and Connelly’s new Detective Ballard team up.) (Don’t know the TW)

The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen (Paperback) (Psychological thriller) (TW gaslighting/ suicide / domestic abuse)

Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney (Paperback) (Psychological thriller) (Don’t know the TW)

And don’t forget we have a custom book stamp giveaway because who doesn’t want to stamp all their books?!

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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Hello mystery fans!

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Break a mirror. Walk under a ladder. Step on a crack. Innocent childhood superstitions … But someone at the Trask Academy of Performing Arts is taking things one step further when the campus is rocked with the deaths of some of its star students. Senior Layna Curtis realizes the random, accidental deaths of her friends aren’t random—or accidents—at all. Someone has taken childhood games too far, using the idea of superstitions to dispose of classmates. As Layna tries to convince people of her theory, she uncovers that each escalating, gruesome murder leads closer to its final victim: her.

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From Book Riot And Around The Internet

Rincey has some mystery comfort reads!

He Read/She Read: Thoughts on Media Analysis and Sherlock Holmes

A Definitive Ranking of Agatha Christie Movies

Tana French’s New Thriller Looks At What Happens When White Men Lose Their Privilege (mild spoilers)

“If The Hate U Give featured more than one use of that word, the movie would be in jeopardy of losing the PG-13 rating that Tillman and his distributor, 20th Century Fox, had hoped to earn, and teenagers who treasured the book might be barred from seeing the adaptation.”

If you’re in London there is a super cool 90 minute immersive Sherlock escape game.

Giveaway: And don’t forget to enter our giveaway for a custom book stamp for your personal library!

True Crime

Robert Durst Murder Trial Seeks Ryan Gosling Movie Screening To Convict Heir

Amanda Knox Has A Brand New Gig: True Crime Podcast Host

‘In My Father’s House’ Explores How Crime Spreads Through Generations

Kindle Deals

Name Of The Dog (Lefty Mendieta #3) by Elmer Mendoza is $2.99 (Rincey discussed it on Read or Dead.)

Marcia Clark’s Samantha Birkman series is $1.99 each if you like mysteries starring lawyers! Blood Defense; Moral Defense; Snap Judgement. (Review) (TW it’s been too long but I want to say an educated guess would be rape.)

Audiobooks On Hoopla! (Hoopla is a fantastic app that many libraries use, which has no holds and everyone is picking from the same catalog regardless of your library!)

The first 3 books in Ausma Zehanat Khan’s fantastic Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak series are available! It’s technically set in Canada, following two detectives, but the series travels the world dealing with important social issues. (I don’t remember specific trigger warnings but the series deals with tough topics.)

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.

If a mystery fan forwarded this newsletter to you and you’d like your very own you can sign up here.