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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their most anticipated book for the second half of 2023! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! What do S.A. Cosby, Khaled Hosseini, Sarah Bakewell, and Yahdon Israel have in common? They've been guests on Book Riot's newest podcast, First Edition where BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. Subscribe to hear them and stay to hear Book Riot's editors pick the "it" book of the month. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS STOP THE PRESSES: TANA FRENCH HAS A NEW BOOK COMING IN 2024!!!! Alyssa Cole also has a new thriller coming out!!  Crime Reads Best of List for the first half of 2023 BOOKS DISCUSSED Where All the Light Tends to Go - David Joy Happiness Falls - Angie Kim (August 29) Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll (Sept. 19) The Refor

Kendra Winchester and Katie McLain Horner share some of their favorite scary summer books! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! What do S.A. Cosby, Khaled Hosseini, Sarah Bakewell, and Yahdon Israel have in common? They've been guests on Book Riot's newest podcast, First Edition where BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world. Subscribe to hear them and stay to hear Book Riot's editors pick the "it" book of the month. *This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission BOOKS DISCUSSED The Postcard by Anne Berest, Translated from French by Tina Kover So Cold the River by Michael Koryta When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole Summers Sons by Lee Mandelo Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel by Leesa Cross-Smit

Kendra Winchester and Katie McLain Horner discuss mysteries and thrillers for Audiobook Month! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and bookish professionals? Subscribe to The Deep Dive, a biweekly newsletter to inform and inspire readers, delivered to your inbox! Your first read (The Power Reader's Guide to Reading Logs & Trackers) is on the house. Check out all the details and choose your membership level at bookriot.substack.com.  This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS Winners of the 2023 International Thriller Writer Awards BOOKS DISCUSSED  Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng , Narrated by Cassandra Campbell Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsa

Kendra Winchester and Katie McLain Horner discuss books for Pride Month! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and bookish professionals? Subscribe to The Deep Dive, a biweekly newsletter to inform and inspire readers, delivered to your inbox! Your first read (The Power Reader's Guide to Reading Logs & Trackers) is on the house. Check out all the details and choose your membership level at bookriot.substack.com. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS Megan Abbott’s Beware the Woman is being turned into a film. BOOKS DISCUSSED Mary Rose - Geoffrey Girard Reprieve - James Han Mattson Dirt Creek - Hayley Scrivenor  Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw

Kendra Winchester and special guest Liberty Hardy discuss mystery and thrillers for AANHPI Heritage Month! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! BookRiot.com co-founder Jeff O'Neal explores the wide bookish world in the new podcast First Edition. Interviews, lists, rankings, retrospectives, recommendations, and much more, featuring people who know and love books. Subscribe to First Edition on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your podcatcher of choice. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS “A Utah mom wrote a kids’ book about grief after her husband’s death. Now she’s charged with his murder” (CNN) Books Mentioned All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby Cutting Teeth - Chandler Baker The Trauma Beat: A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News - Tamara Cherry  Your House Will Pay - Steph Cha Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advi

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester talk about books perfect for reading on road trips! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! Book Riot co-founder Jeff O’Neal explores the wide bookish world in the new podcast First Edition. Interviews, lists, rankings, retrospectives, recommendations, and much more, featuring people who know and love books. Subscribe to First Edition on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your podcatcher of choice. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS The 2023 Edgar Awards have been announced! BOOKS DISCUSSED Devolution – Max Brooks The Martian – Andy Weir The Hunger – Alma Katsu Scorched Grace – Margot Douaihy Mapping the Interior – Stephen Graham Jones Fixit – Joe Ide Warrior Girl Unearthed – Angeline Boulley If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at re

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss YA mystery novels! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more from experts in the world of books and reading? Subscribe to Book Riot’s newest newsletter, The Deep Dive, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox. Subscribe and choose your membership level today at bookriot.substack.com. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS Anne Perry Dies at 84 (Book Riot) BOOKS DISCUSSED Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice – Cristina Rivera Garza She Is a Haunting – Trang Thanh Tran The Getaway – Lamar Giles Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley Sadie – Courtney Summers Sisters of the Lost Nation – Nick Medina Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss novels nominated for the Edgar Awards! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more from experts in the world of books and reading? Subscribe to Book Riot’s newest newsletter, The Deep Dive, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox. Subscribe and choose your membership level today at bookriot.substack.com. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS “Oscar Isaac will play a sexy Kurt Vonnegut in a new crime series.” (Hey, I’m just quoting the experts here!) Amazon has canceled Three Pines after just one season. Amazon is adapting E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars as a series. BOOKS DISCUSSED The Woman in the Library – Sulari Gentill Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Tw

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss noir novels! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED The Resemblance – Laura Nossett The Devil Takes You Home – Gabino Iglesias Scorched Grace – Margaret Douaihy On the Savage Side – Tiffany McDaniel When These Mountains Burn – David Joy Red London – Alma Katsu We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since Katie McLain Horner is on vacation this week, Liberty Hardy joins Kendra Winchester to discuss middle grade mysteries! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! NEWS Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more from experts in the world of books and reading? Subscribe to Book Riot’s newest newsletter, The Deep Dive, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox. Subscribe and choose your membership level today at bookriot.substack.com This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS MENTIONED  I Have Some Questions for You – Rebecca Makkai The Secret History – Donna Tartt The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels – Beth Lincoln, Illustrated by Claire Powell Malamander (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea Book 1) – Thomas Taylor and Tom Booth The Dare: Friends, Family, and Other Eerie Mysteries by Cynthe

Tune in as Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester crime books by Black authors. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! NEWS Walter Mosely has been awarded the 2023 CWA Diamond Dagger Award This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix The Violin Conspiracy – Brendan Slocumb All Her Little Secrets / Anywhere You Run – Wanda M. Morris My Darkest Prayer – S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby on the New York Times Book Review podcast The Cutting Season – Attica Locke Scorched Grace – Margot Douaihy I Have Some Questions For You – Rebecca Makkai If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all

Tune in as Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books with sinister vibes! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED VenCo – Cherie Dimaline How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix Jackal – Erin E. Adams See What I Have Done – Sarah Schmidt Devil House – John Darnielle Bad Cree – Jessica Johns Such Pretty Flowers – KL Cerra Harriet Spies – Elana K. Arnold  If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tune in as Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss cozy mystery novels! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! NEWS Edgar Award Nominees! Crime Reads’ Most Anticipated Crime Novels of 2023 This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Finlay Donovan Is Killing It – Elle Cosimano Arsenic & Adobo – Mia P. Manansala Death by Dumpling – Vivien Chien The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley The Exiles – Jane Harper Promise Boys – Nick Brooks If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tune in as Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their most anticipated book releases of 2023. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Age of Vice – Deepti Kapoor Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover Up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder – Piu Eatwell All That Is Mine I Carry With Me – William Landay (March 7, 2023) Red London – Alma Katsu (March 14, 2023) Sing Her Down – Ivy Pochoda (May 23, 2023) The Only One Left – Riley Sager (June 20, 2023) Bad Cree – Jessica Johns (Doubleday, January 10th) All the Sinners Bleed – S.A. Cosby (Flatiron, June 6th) The Mistress of Bahtia House – Sujata Massey (Soho Press, July 11th Don’t Fear the Reaper – Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press, February 7th) VenCo – Cherie Dimaline (William Morrow, Februa

Tune in as Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books they didn’t manage to get to in 2022. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! NEWS Trailer for 65 (Adam Driver + time travel + dinosaurs!!) This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Things We Found When the Water Went Down – Tegan Ni Swanson The House Across the Lake – Riley Sager Jackal – Erin Adams The Hacienda – Isabel Canas Hokuloa Road – Elizabeth Hand The Weight of Blood – Tiffany D. Jackson Devil House – John Darnielle The Violin Conspiracy – Brendan Slocum If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time! Learn more about your ad choi

Tune in as Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their favorite mysteries and thrillers of 2022. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! NEWS Goodreads Choice Award Winners 2022 This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED They’re Going to Love You – Meg Howrey Hidden Pictures – Jason Rekulak Cherish Farrah – Bethany C. Morrow Hide – Kiersten White Red Widow – Alma Katsu Shutter – Ramona Emerson My Darkest Prayer – S.A. Cosby Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City – Tanya Talaga “Harvard announces return of Native hair samples” (Indian Country Today) If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And

Tune in as Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss true crime for a (belated) Nonfiction November. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York – Elon Green The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing – Sonia Faleiro American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land – Monica Hesse The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of Double Murder in Appalachia – Emma Copley Eisenberg Interview with Emma Copley Eisenberg Eisenberg’s Articles “Fact Checking Is the Core of Nonfiction Writing. Why Do So Many Publishers Refuse to Do It?” (Esquire) “The Tale of Queer Appalachia: A popular Instagram account raises funds for LGBTQ people in Appalachia. But does the money really go where it’s supposed to?” (Washing

Tune in as Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their gift guide for the holidays. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York – Elon Green Her Name is Knight – Yasmin Angoe Death in the Family – Tessa Wegert Ghost Squad – Claribel A. Ortega Sadie – Courtney Summers The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey The Satapur Moonstone – Sujata Massey The Bombay Prince – Sujata Massey The Mistress of Bhatia House – Sujata Massey If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time! Learn more about

Tune in as Katie McLain and Kendra Winchester discuss mysteries and thrillers for Indigenous Heritage Month. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED My Heart Is a Chainsaw – Stephen Graham Jones Shutter – Ramona Emerson Winter Counts – David Heska Wanbli Weiden Moon of the Crusted Snow – Waubgeshig Rice Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley The Resemblance – Lauren Nossett The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022 – edited Jess Walter and Steph Cha If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise you can: Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tune in as Katie and Kendra discuss novels with villain POV characters! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter to get even more mystery/thriller recs and news! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NEWS Angela Lansbury, who played Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote, has died at 96 (Book Riot) Devil in the White City loses its director and Keanu Reeves in the same week (Indie Wire) Kenneth Branagh is making a third Poirot mystery, which will be based on the novel Hallowe’en Party  (People) Reading the Stars by us, Book Riot, will help you better understand how your zodiac sign shapes your reading life. Check out our giveaway! BOOKS DISCUSSED Black Folk Could Fly – Randall Kenan Out – Natsuo Kirino; transl. Stephen Snyder The Dinner – Herman Koch; transl. Sam Garrett My Sister the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite For Your Own Good – Samantha Downing Anywhere You Ru