Author: Jamie Canaves

Hello mystery fans! Riley Sager came up with a brilliant TV show idea and how do we get this made?! “Someone please make a TV show starring Kathleen Turner and Stockard Channing as sisters and rival Broadway divas who end up solving murders together. I’ll write the pilot for free.”

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Sponsored by A WILLING MURDER by Jude Deveraux from MIRA Books

New York Times bestselling romance author Jude Deveraux makes her debut in the world of mystery with a story of old secrets and an improbable group of friends who are determined to uncover the truth.

When two skeletons are accidentally uncovered in the quiet town of Lachlan, an unlikely trio are thrust together by a common goal: to solve a mystery everyone else seems eager to keep under wraps. United by a sense of justice, Sara, Kate and Jack will have to dig into Lachlan’s murky past to unravel the small town’s dark secrets and work to bring the awful truth to light.

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From Book Riot And Around The Internet

Rincey and Katie talk news, adaptations, monster thrillers, and what they’re reading on Read or Dead.

Dead Girls, Female Murderers, and Megan Abbott’s Novel “Give Me Your Hand”

Rincey has 3 nonfiction page-turners with two nonviolent true crime reads that are excellent.

An interview with Edgar Cantero, author of Meddling Kids and This Body’s Not Big Enough For Both Of Us.

Giveaway: Book Riot has 16 awesome books featured on the Recommended podcast that you could win!

Adaptations And News

Reese Witherspoon chose Maria Hummel’s Still Lives as her book club pick. (Review)

There’s a Kickstarter for a new immersive theater experience from Speakeasy Dollhouse based on a popular noir comic book, The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini, exploring the death of Harry Houdini.

 

True Crime

Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, hosts of true crime comedy podcast “My Favorite Murder,” have a book coming out in 2019: Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered

This sounds like the opening of a thriller I want to read: Thieves Steal Swedish Crown Jewels Before Fleeing By Speedboat (I also may have a sudden urge to drive a speedboat while wearing a jeweled crown.)

Did Stephen King’s Son Just Solve a 44-Year-Old Murder Mystery?: What do Jaws and an infamous cold case have in common? Bestselling author Joe Hill presents a theory linking two events that took place in 1974 Cape Cod.

A small-town couple left behind a stolen painting worth over $100 million — and a big mystery

Crime Author Who Killed People and Used Own Murders to Write Novels Sentenced to Death

Why Is Ted Bundy Suddenly Everywhere?

Kindle Deals

Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan is $1.99! (Great mystery starring two Jesuit priests–a forensic anthropologist and psychologist–consulting on a serial killer case!) (Been too long to remember TW but my guess is child death and rape.)

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6) by Alan Bradley is $1.99! (Precocious young girl attracted to macabre solving mysteries in 1950s England.)

A Bit of My Week In Reading

Started listening to The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martínez, Sonia Soto (Translator) because I hate math and figured if it had anything to do with the solve then finally I’d read a mystery where I wouldn’t figure it out at the beginning. So far it’s murdery and philosophical and good.

My current non-crime read is The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory and it’s all the hearteyes emoji. Also, I’m now on the lookout for a best friend who owns a cupcake shop.

I’m reading two mystery/horror books: Bad Man by Dathan Auerbach about a young man who starts working at the grocery store his little brother went missing from years before; Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand about a town where girls keep disappearing…

And my current procedural read is Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear about a London DC who is forced into therapy after a horrific crime scene and is on a case connected to her childhood when her father lied about knowing a girl…

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Hello mystery fans! I have a great cozy mystery, fun psychological thriller, and a snowed in Inn where guests are being murdered!

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Day is Back in Another Funny Cozy! (TW suicide)

Hollywood Ending (Detective by Day #2) by Kellye Garrett: I do not need to like my characters to enjoy a book, especially in the crime genre, but when it comes to cozy mysteries, the series I end up sticking with are the ones where I either love the main character or want to join in and solve with them. In this case it’s both: I love Dayna “Day” Anderson and would totally join her, and her group of friends, in solving any mystery. Especially, to sit back and watch Day try to explain things since she usually makes them worse in a hilarious-to-me-not-so-much-to-her way. Day is just about to the grab the brass rings: She’s finally a PI apprentice (But there’s a hitch!); She’s happily dating an actor (But everyone thinks he’s dating someone else!)… It is one of my favorite things about this series, how Day is always so close but life is life. This time around she’s trying to solve a publicist’s murder, get her ex-cop turned PI partner to help her PI, all while dealing with the Hollywood machine behind the actor she’s dating. Awesome friendships, annoying partnerships, Hollywood, laugh out loud scenes, and a solved murder–I can’t ask for anything more in a great cozy mystery! (Can be read as a standalone.)

Fun Page-Turner Psychological Thriller! (TW suicide/ animal cruelty)

A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay: This had that fun horror-ish “Omg did you hear that? There has to be someone in the house” feeling without being a horror novel, which is something I love. Imagine accidentally stumbling upon the aftermath of a double murder, barely surviving, and then not knowing if you need to check into a psychiatric hospital or if your house is haunted by the victims… Or maybe it’s one of your therapists patients who assaulted you… If you’re looking for something to keep you up past your bedtime, that delivers the thrills and twists, here you go! (I put this book down after the opening, said “I need to make popcorn for this,” did, and then proceeded to inhale the book and my popcorn!)

For Agatha Christie Fans (TW rape / suicide)

An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena: There’s a blizzard in the Inn in the Catskills and you know the drill people, there’s gonna be a murder and it had to have been one of the guests! Except at first everyone thinks the guest died by accident, so while everyone is disturbed with having to leave the body where it is until the storm passes, and the police can arrive, they aren’t afraid. That is until there’s another death… Someone amongst these strangers clearly has murder in mind and not a weekend getaway, but who and why?! This was a good mystery with a group of strangers all stuck together for most of the book and, at the end, the police come in with the solve and wrap-up. Can you figure it out before the police?

Recent Releases

Baghdad Noir edited by Samuel Shimon (A good series of short story crime collections set in a specific place–a great way to discover new authors.)

Marrakech Noir edited by Yassin Adnan (Ditto)

Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History by Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken (TBR: True crime)

Blood Highway by Gina Wohlsdorf (TBR: I really enjoyed her slasher film in a book Security and am looking forward to getting to sit down with this one.)

Desperate Girls (Wolfe Security #1) by Laura Griffin (TBR: Romantic suspense starring a defense attorney.)

Absinthe by Guido Eeckhaut (TBR: International crime thriller)

Judas: How a Sister’s Testimony Brought Down a Criminal Mastermind by Astrid Holleeder (TBR: True Crime)

Our House by Louise Candlish (Good psychological suspense about a woman who comes home to find another family moving into her house!) (TW suicide)

Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou (Currently reading: Sisters with a secret–murder?–that they use against each other…)

Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day (TBR: A group of people staying at a dark sky park are all suspects when one is murdered–I’d never heard of a dark sky park before and am even more intrigued.)

Walking Shadows (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #25) by Faye Kellerman (Currently reading: Good procedural so far trying to solve the murder of a young man that is also focusing on the police department’s politics.)

Toucan Keep a Secret (Meg Langslow #23) by Donna Andrews (TBR: funny cozy mystery)

Sweet After Death (Alice Madison #4) by Valentina Giambanco (TBR: Procedural set in Washington)

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Hi mystery fans! Here’s to a bookish weekend!

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Sponsored by Doubleday Books

In a dingy office, the door bears the names of A. Kimrean and Z. Kimrean. Private Eyes. Behind the door there is only one desk, one androgynous PI. A.Z., as they are collectively known, are brother and sister. He’s pure misanthropic logic, she’s hedonistic creativity. The Kimreans have been locked in mortal battle since they were in utero…which is tricky because they, very literally, share one single body. This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us is a brilliantly subversive and comic thriller celebrating noir detectives and action movies, that can only come from the mind of Edgar Cantero.

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From Book Riot And Around the Internet

Holmes-Trotting: 6 International Sherlock Holmes Adaptations You Need in Your Life

Goodreads asked Alice Bolin, author of Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession, and journalist-turned-crime novelist Laura Lippman to discuss a recurring theme in crime fiction: “a beautiful girl dies, and a man feels bad about it.” What we got was a rollicking conversation about women readers, the power of noir, and why there’s something sinister in romantic-comedy plots.

Why the Fashion on Killing Eve Is Its Own Delicious Subplot

Last week I told you about how much I loved Courtney Summer’s upcoming novel Sadie (it’s so freaking smart and good) and here she is talking about the importance of victim’s voices. Plus, there’s a giveaway for a signed copy of her novel.

10 Things I’d Like My Readers To Know About Me By Ausma Zehanat Khan (Author of the Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak series which I love.)

Giveaway: You can win 16 AWESOME books featured on the Recommended podcast! Y’all are so lucky!

Adaptations and News

The leads have been cast for USA Network’s adaptation of Megan Abbott’s novel Dare Me.

Tiffany D. Jackson’s next book sounds amazing! (Author of Allegedly and Monday’s Not Coming)

John Krasinski steps out of The Office and into Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan on this week’s EW cover

True Crime

Laura Lippman explores her own ethics in crime writing: When Crime Comes from the Crime Writer

How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions (McSting included!)

A scene from Netflix’s The Break with Michelle Wolf where she hilariously takes on True Crime

52 Great True Crime Podcasts

Kindle Deals

Villain by Shuichi Yoshida, Philip Gabriel (Narrator) is $4.99 (Japanese crime high on my TBR!)

What You Don’t Know by JoAnn Chaney is $2.99 and it’s one of my favorite crime books! (Review) (I don’t remember the TWs but it’s a serial killer novel.)

Little Monsters by Kara Thomas is $1.99! (Good YA psychological thriller: Review) (TW suicide)

A Bit Of My Week In Reading

Almost finished with the audiobook for A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo which is a slow burn psychological where everyone is pretty much unreliable, there’s toxic relationships (best friend love obsessions), and of course a murder.

I started Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou which so far has a bunch of vague little blips where either something bad happened that these two sisters are hiding or something bad is about to happen with these two sisters–or both! Either way I’m invested.

And because I didn’t already have enough audiobooks I just loaded An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena, Our House by Louise Candlish, and Bad Man by Dathan Auerbach into my phone!

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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! This week I have dead cheerleaders, modern noir, and a quiet mystery for you. Is it too macabre to say, “Enjoy!”?

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Sponsored by Against Nature, a Duck Darley thriller from author Casey Barrett.

Perched in an airy penthouse above the corrupt streets of Manhattan, unlicensed P.I. Duck Darley has settled into an unlikely domestic routine with a wealthy divorcée and her precocious eight-year-old son. But old nightmares return when a desperate text from Cass Kimball, the former partner Duck once took a bullet to protect, lures him back into sworn-off vices and the sinister world of professional sports . . .

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Excellent Modern Noir

Dead Soon Enough (Juniper Song, #3) by Steph Cha: This is the third in this really good amateur-sleuth-turned-PI series, which stars a young woman in L.A. solving crimes with her dark stained view of the world–and I hope there is more to come in the series. Song takes on the case of a missing woman, which ends up going into strange-town real quick because of the client’s unique situation. She’s hired to find Lusig’s missing friend, a woman outspoken about the Armenian genocide. But the person who actually hires Song is Lusig’s cousin Rubina, because Lusig is Rubina’s surrogate at the moment, and Rubina fears Lusig trying to find what happened to her friend is putting Rubina’s unborn child in danger. Still with me? It’s a complicated family web of drama that is deliciously bonkers while also realistic to how complicated family relationships can be. Song finds herself way over her head, dealing with the clients and the case, as once again Cha wrote a mystery with a massive nod to the noir genre but cemented it very much in the modern world. (I recommend the entire series because I love Juniper Song, and watching her progress from amateur to licensed PI, but this one can be read as a standalone.)

That’s A Lot of Dead Cheerleaders (TW statutory rape/ suicide)

The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas: I 100% picked up this book because of the cover design and then I realized it was written by the author of Little Monsters which I really enjoyed (Review). If you were also a fan, you’ll be happy to know Thomas has once again written a solid mystery with, for me, just the right amount of reveals/twists. The town of Sunnybrook has five dead cheerleaders. Two were murdered, two died in a car accident, and one died by suicide. Now five years later one of the deceased cheerleader’s younger sister finds herself with more questions than answers as she, and a new friend, do some very ill-advised sleuthing–including in her stepfather’s office. Did I mention he’s a police officer who seems to know more than he’s ever shared with her about the cases, including her sister’s?… It’s a real page-turner.

Searching For Answers: Is Her Father Innocent Or A Monster? (TW date rape)

A Double Life by Flynn Berry: This was a good quiet mystery that I didn’t realize my brain needed after I’d read too many twisty-twist-with-another-twist-well-that-jumped-the-shark thrillers in a row. And I’m not knocking those thrillers, because I like them, but sometimes too much of one thing in a row requires a change of speed before you get fried out. Plus, I’m always a fan of mysteries that aren’t full of bells and whistles but, rather, let you get to know a character and slowly watch a mystery unravel as it builds into tension and the solve. In this case, Claire, a London doctor, is visited by police who think they may have once again found her father. Slowly it’s revealed what her father is suspected of, Claire’s life of never knowing whether he’s a wrongfully accused man or a monster, and her decision to finally go get some answers… (I really enjoyed the audiobook as the narrator, Fiona Hardingham, really placed me in Claire’s mind and world.)

Recent Releases

My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s Police Torture Ring and Death Row by Ronald Kitchen,Thai Jones, Logan McBride (TBR true crime memoir)

Against the Claw (A Lobster Shack Mystery #2) by Shari Randall (TBR cozy mystery)

The Widow Spy: My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison in Moscow by Martha D. Peterson, Laural Merlington (Narrator) (Currently my audiobook)

This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us by Edgar Cantero (I enjoyed his mystery Meddling Kids and have this one queued up as my next audiobook.)

A Gentleman’s Murder by Christopher Huang (Just started reading: Historical mystery that already sold rights for adaptation.)

Requiem by Geir Tangen (TBR: Scandinavian thriller)

Sunburn by Laura Lippman (Paperback) (Slow-burn modern noir: Review)

Y Is For Yesterday by Sue Grafton (Paperback) (The last in her Alphabet series since she passed away–*cries in books forever.)

And hello new Book Riot giveaway: You can win 16 awesome books featured on the Recommended podcast! And that is a seriously beautiful list of books.

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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! If you’re needing some ridiculousness in your life, the second season of NBC’s Trial & Error just started. It’s a spoof of procedurals and this season stars the always amazing Kristin Chenoweth–who may or may not have put her murdered husband into the trunk of her car in a suitcase.

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From Book Riot And Around The Internet

Rincey and Katie review recent Presidential mysteries and more on the latest Read or Dead.

7 Crime Titles Recommended on My Favorite Murder

5 Lessons I Learned as a Murder Investigator (By Ellison Cooper, author of Caged—Review–and there’s a giveaway in the post.)

Two Men Charged with Stealing More than $8 Million in Rare Books from Carnegie Library

July’s Mystery and Thriller Must-Reads

Karin Slaughter: By the Book “People are always surprised that I read a lot of history, but I feel that good crime fiction holds a mirror up to society and tells readers what’s going on in the world. You can’t do that effectively without understanding history.”

Adaptations and News

The trailer for The Girls, a (fake) true crime podcast based on Courtney Summer’s forthcoming novel Sadie. (The book is excellent, you can find my review below.)

I LOVE the official poster for the adaptation of The Hate U Give.

The complete first season of the BBC Sherlock has been adapted to Manga and will release in October in a box set.

Parkland Student Activists Announce Book: Gun Violence “Will Not Be Solved by Shrugging It Off”

Kindle Deals

For fans of British procedurals: Persons Unknown (DS Manon, #2) by Susie Steiner is $1.99

Need to Know by Karen Cleveland is $2.99 if you’re looking for a CIA psychological thriller. (Review)

Goldie Vance Vol 1 is $1.99 and that is a ridiculous price for this delightful graphic novel mystery about a teen valet in a Florida resort who spends most of her time solving mysteries! (Review)

A Bit of My Week In Reading

I started Hollywood Ending (Detective by Day #2) by Kellye Garrett and I love Day’s humor so much and I really like the way it’s moving her into a private detective apprentice role that comes with problems.

I finished the audiobook for Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin which was a good, gritty crime novel set in nature. (TW rape/ animal cruelty)

I had a hard time putting down Sadie by Courtney Summers because it’s so good and smart. It’s about a stubborn young woman who has gone looking for the man who murdered her thirteen-year-old sister, who she raised, in order to kill him. In between Sadie’s chapters is the transcript for a podcast where a radio personality is trying to find Sadie. I think this is going to be one of the big books of fall, as it should be. Fantastic on so many levels. (TW child abuse/ pedophilia/ attempted suicide mentioned)

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! This week I’m going with a theme since I realized I love the trope wakes-up-covered-in-blood-with-no-memory. It gives me a few mysteries at once: Did they or didn’t they? Who is the victim? Why did this happen? Basically, I am always in when a book has this element so if you agree, or are curious, here are some I’ve enjoyed.

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Sponsored by Epic Reads

These three new novels, set in the perennially popular Fear Street world, are perfect for fans of Stranger Things!

Two Fear family weddings, decades apart… Each bride will find that the ancient curse that haunts the Fears LIVES ON. It feeds off the evil that courses through their blood. It takes its toll in unexpected ways, and allows dark history to repeat itself.

In this all-new Fear Street story, family ties bind sisters together—till DEATH do they part.

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Controversial Blogger Found Covered in Blood and Holding a Knife (TW it’s been a while but I want to say child death)

The Last Day of Emily Lindsey by Nic Joseph: This was a good mystery that I don’t feel got the attention it deserved. Not only does detective Steven Paul get the case of a controversial blogger covered in blood holding a knife, but she’s drawn a symbol that is straight from his night terrors. Literally! That was enough “Whaaaaat?!” to keep me turning the page on this novel with alternating storylines. One is Paul with his kind-of-in-shambles life (divorce, work incident has his colleagues doubting his capabilities, his lifelong night terrors) and the other is a group of kids who are communally parented and are trying to solve a mystery of their own. This one works well for fans of past and present, detectives, and novels that mix adult and child point of view.

If You Wake Up Next to a Murdered Man Did You Do It?! (TW date rape)

The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian: This is the predicament flight attendant Cassie Bowden finds herself in. She knows she drinks too much and she knows she uses casual sex to escape but now she needs to find out if she’s a murderer… Another story that is told in alternating point of view with suspense that had me glued to the audiobook. And, yes, that’s all I’m giving you because I liked how this unfolded and why would I ruin that for you?

When You Have To Solve If Your Sister Is A Murderer?! (TW rape)

White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig: Rufus’ half sister wakes up to an empty house, murdered boyfriend, and all signs point to her being the killer. Hoping to clear her name she offers to pay Rufus, desperately in need of money to help his mom out, to figure out what really happened. Except Rufus is not a Veronica Mars type teenager and this night has gotten him stuck with his ex-boyfriend–who broke his heart–and he’s still not over. A good mystery with a horror body count, that has a great main character to follow as he struggles through family, relationship, and anger issues.

Twisty Slow Burn Psychological Whydunnit (TW stalking/ suicide)

The Good Son by You-jeong Jeong, Chi-Young Kim (Translator): Yu-jin wakes up in his house covered in blood and finds his mother dead. He has no idea what could have possibly happened. Slowly the novel begins to reveal Yu-jin’s struggles with seizures, his relationship with his mother, and his childhood. The audiobook has a great narrator that really puts you inside Yu-jin’s mind as he tries to piece together as much as he can to fill in the gaps in his memory. Perfect for fans of “the secrets are gonna all come out” novels.

And next on my list to read for this trope, thanks to Rioters’ recommendations, are The Blood Whisperer by Zoë Sharp and Strange Sight (Essex Witch Museum Mystery #2) by Syd Moore. If you have a favorite let me know!

Recent Releases

A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay (TBR: Psychological thriller.)

Little Girl Lost by Wendy Corsi Staub (Currently reading: Serial killer seems to have killed to put a plan in place to happen in the future. (Tw child rape)

The Boy At the Door by Alex Dahl (Currently reading: Boy with no parents upends a woman’s life who clearly has secrets.) (TW drug addiction/ mentions eating disorder/ domestic violence/ rape/ suicidal thoughts/ self-harm)

What Remains Of Her by Eric Rickstad (TBR)

Hangman (Fawkes & Baster #2) by Daniel Cole (TBR)

The Day of the Dead (Frieda Klein #8) by Nicci French (Final book in the London-based psychotherapist series.)

Atlanta Noir edited by Tayari Jones (Audiobook release is narrated by Bahni Turpin!!!)

The Long Drop by Denise Mina (Paperback) (Crime fiction for fans of true crime: Review) (Sorry I don’t remember TWs)

AND we’re giving away $500 of the year’s best YA fiction and nonfiction so far and you don’t want to miss this epicness!

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! Twitter has been playing “You can replace the cast of any movie with The Muppets, but you keep one of the human actors. What movie and which human do you keep?” And “Clue, keep Tim Curry” is my favorite response.

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From Book Riot and Around the Internet

So You Want To Get Into Political Thriller Books?

Hope Never Dies: 5 key ingredients for turning Obama and Biden into literary sleuths

For ‘Killing Eve’ Star Sandra Oh, An Emmy Nomination That Will Go Down In History

(TW self-harm) Sharp Objects Author Gillian Flynn Explains the Show’s Hidden Words: Plus the inspiration behind the show’s eerie Woman in White.

Megan Abbott and Tom Perrotta’s epic, fascinating conversation about moving from novels to TV

Giveaway: Enter to win one of ten copies of I’m Not Missing, a great YA coming-of-age with a running mystery throughout. (You have until midnight to enter!)

Adaptations and News

Karin Slaughter’s upcoming Pieces of Her will be adapted into a TV series with Charlotte Stoudt attached to write and Lesli Linka Glatter directing.

Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak series (Which I LOVE!) will have a 5th book in the series and the cover was revealed. I can’t wait!

BOOM! Studios has a graphic novel release in November that sounds great: “With ‘Smooth Criminals,’ we want to tell a female friendship story wrapped in a jewel heist,” said Smith and Lustgarten.

Nikhil Bhalla filed a petition in India against Netflix to have scenes removed from the adaptation of Sacred Games citing “offensive scenes” and remarks about former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

True Crime

Lit Life: Three True-Crime Stories That Are Stranger Than Fiction

9 New True Crime Books That Should Definitely Be Movies

(Genealogy helps again) How DNA Led to Arrest in Cold-Case Killing of Indiana 8-Year-Old After it ‘Haunted the Community for 30 Years’: Prosecutor

Kindle Deals

Street People by Michael Nava is $2.99 and my purchase today!

Murder at Cape Three Points (The Inspector Darko Dawson Mysteries Book 3) by Kwei Quarteyis $1.99! (Really like this detective series set in Ghana)

 

 

And my galleys have run amock!

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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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