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Tune in as Katie and Kendra discuss witchy books perfect for spooky season! 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! THINGS MENTIONED Reading the Stars by us, Book Riot, will help you better understand how your zodiac sign shapes your reading life. Check out our giveaway! “Hurricane Ian relief: How to donate, volunteer and more” (NBC WPTV) Dylan in His Raincoat This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Shrines of Gaiety – Kate Atkinson What’s Done in Darkness – Laura McHugh The Lighthouse Witches – CJ Cooke The Year of the Witching – Alexis Henderson The Women Could Fly – Megan Giddings The Witches: Salem, 1692 – Stacy Schiff Blackmail and Bibingka – Mia P. Manansala Jackal – Erin E. Adams If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com. Otherwise yo

Tune in as Katie and Kendra discuss books for Banned Books Week! 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 Anthony Award Winners Announced (Bouchercon 2022) Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools (Pen America) “Lechelt: On banning books. Specifically, ‘Monday’s Not Coming’” (London Times-Mirror) “‘It’s surreal’: Collierville Schools removes LGBTQ+ books from library shelves” (ABC) “Indian River County School Board refuses to ban most of the 156 books on group’s hit list” (TCPalm.) “‘This is wrong’: Central York students protest ban on books about racism” (ABC) “Klein Independent School District Book Removals” (IDRA) BOOKS DISCUSSED Revelator – Daryl Gregory The Jigsaw Man – Nadine Matheson Monday’s Not Coming – Tiffany D. Jackson White Rabbit – Caleb Roe

Tune in as Katie McClain and new co-host Kendra Winchester discuss some of their recent favorites. 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 Inventing Anna ignites a defamation lawsuit against Netflix. by Winston Cho (Hollywood Reporter) Natalie Portman series Lady in the Lake hits pause after threats of violence and extortion by Nick Romano (Entertainment) Val McDermid reveals ‘Queen of Crime’ legal threat from Agatha Christie estate by Brian Ferguson (The Scotsman) BOOKS DISCUSSED The Jigsaw Man – Nadine Matheson Perfect Days – Raphael Montes, transl. Alison Entrekin The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey Quicksand – Malin Persson Giolito, transl. Rachel Willson-Broyles A Death in Door County – Annelise Ryan The Enigma of Room 622 – Joël Dicker, transl. Robert Bononno If you

Tune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about domestic suspense and its continuing appeal. 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 Sister Rosa – Justine Larbalestier More Than You’ll Ever Know – Katie Gutierrez Good Neighbors – Sarah Langan Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng Murder in Westminster – Vanessa Riley Real Bad Things – Kelly J. Ford If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise you can:  Find Nusrah on Instagram @wellreadbrowngirl 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 Nusrah and guest host, Kendra talk about mystery and suspense works in translation in honor of Women in Translation 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! https://www.womenintranslation.org This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED A Master of Djinn by P.Djeli Clark Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones Out by Natsuo Kirino, Translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo, Translated by Chi-Young Kim People Like Them by Semira Sidra, Translated by Lara Vergnaud Shutter by Ramona Emerson Kismet by Amina Akhtar If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise, you can:  Find Nusrah on Instagram @wellreadbrowngirl Find

Tune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about books you should take on your vacation and ones you should skip. 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 Chain by Adrian McKinty The Getaway by Lamar Giles One by One by Ruth Ware Pretty Things by Janelle Brown The Sentence by Louise Erdrich  Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise you can:  Find Nusrah on Instagrram @wellreadbrowngirl 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 Nusrah talk about mysteries that feature all sorts of games. 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 Good Rich People – Eliza Jane Brazier The Devotion of Suspect X – Keigo Higashino Never Have I Ever – Joshilyn Jackson Under Lock and Skeleton Key – Gigi Pandian We Lie Here – Rachel Howzell Hall Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod – Casey Sherman If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise you can:  Find Nusrah on Twitter @JavedNusrah 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 Nusrah talk about mystery and suspense reads to keep Pride alive all year long. 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 Echo Wife – Sarah Gailey Death Prefers Blondes – Caleb Roehrig Ace of Spades – Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé The Verifiers – Jane Pek Harlem Sunset – Nekesa Afia Unnatural Ends – Christopher Huang If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise, you can:  Find Nusrah on Twitter @JavedNusrah 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 Nusrah talk about their anticipated mystery and suspense reads for the second half 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! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Vicious Creatures – Ashton Noone Hokuloa Road – Elizabeth Hand Kismet – Amina Akhtar The Hacienda – Isabel Canas Siren Queen – Nghi Vo The Cherry Robbers – Sarai Walker The Woman in the Library – Sulari Gentill Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods – Lyndsie Bourgon Vera Kelly: Lost and Found – Rosalie Knecht If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise, you can:  Find Nusrah on Twitter @JavedNusrah Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/

Tune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about mystery series you can dive into. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Final Girls by Riley Sager Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry #1) by Sujata Massey My Heart is a Chainsaw (The Lake Witch Trilogy #1) by Stephen Graham Jones Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder (A Marion Lane Mystery) by T.A.Willberg New Books More Than You’ll Ever Know – Katie Gutierrez Counterfeit – Kirstin Chen If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise you can:  Find Nusrah on Twitter @JavedNusrah 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 Nusrah talk about mysteries featuring some kind of time and inter-dimensional travel. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Shining Girls – Lauren Beukes Dark Matter – Blake Crouch The Anamoly– Herve Le Tellier The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North With Prejudice – Robin Peguero Hide – Kiersten White If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise you can:  Find Nusrah on Twitter @JavedNusrah 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 Nusrah take their picks from Edgar Award Nominees and talk you through them. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Razorblade Tears – S.A. Cosby Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice – Ellen McGarrahan The Forest of Stolen Girls – June Hur Never Saw Me Coming – Vera Kurian The Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley Clark and Division – Naomi Hirahara Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders – Kathryn Miles The Hacienda – Isabel Cañas If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise you can:  Find Nusrah on Twitter @JavedNusrah Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time!

Tune in as Katie and Nusrah reminisce about their favorite debuts by mystery authors. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.  Razorblade Tears – S.A. Cosby  The Conductors – Nicole Glover The Intuitionist– Colson Whitehead Tangerine by Christine Mangan Miracle Creek – Angie Kim Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn Her Name is Knight – Yasmin Angoe I’ll Be You – Janelle Brown The Wild Girls – Phoebe Morgan If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise you can:  Find Nusrah on Twitter @JavedNusrah 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 Nusrah talk about locked room mysteries and all that the sub-genre has to offer. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed A Death in the Family – Tessa Wegert Under Lock & Skeleton Key – Gigi Pandian Eighth Detective – Alex Pavesii They All Fall Down – Rachel Howzell Hall New Releases Portrait of a Thief – Grace D. Li Sense and Second-Degree Murder – Tirzah Price If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise you can:  Find Nusrah on Twitter @JavedNusrah Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time!

Tune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about some of their favorite TV shows and give read-a-likes for them. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Red Widow by Alma Katsu Her Name is Knight by Yasmin Angoe The Given Day by Dennis Lehane The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh Empire of the Wild by Cherie Demaline The Appeal by Janice Halett Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara Her Last Affair by John Searles Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto (release date March 29th) If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise you can:  Find Nusrah on Twitter @JavedNusrah Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time!

Tune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about short reads to meet your reading goals, read during lunch, and everything in between. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Red Widow by Alma Katsu The Grownup by Gillian Flynn Confessions by Kanae Minato The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin Moon of the Crusted Snow Waubgeshig Rice The Secret Talker by Geling Yan Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise, you can:  Find me on Twitter @JavedNusrah Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady

Tune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about mystery and suspense reads by Black authors in honor of Black History Month. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia Wahala by Nikki May The Verifiers by Jane Pek This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel Run Rose Run by James Patterson & Dolly Parton If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise, you can:  Find me on Twitter @JavedNusrah Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about cozy mysteries to stay in with this Valentine’s Day. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed When the Reckoning Comes by Tanya McQueen Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette Mango, Mambo, and Murder by Raquel Reyes Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs Other People’s Clothes by Calla Henkel Homicide & Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise, you can:  Find Nusrah on Twitter @JavedNusrah Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about books featuring women who kill and the nuance that comes with it. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! Edgar Award nominees! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Currently Reading House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden Books Discussed Heartsick by Chelsea Cain #FashionVictim by Amina Akhtar The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins New Releases The New Girl by Jesse Q. Sutanto Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about their most anticipated releases for the upcoming year. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Currently Reading Death in her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh Take it Back by Kia Abdullah Books Discussed Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel Fervor by Alma Katsu Our Little World by Karen Winn Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Leigh Allen Devil House by John Darnielle The Great Mrs. Elias by Barbara Chase-Riboud Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd Secret Identity by Alex Segura If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise, you can:  Find me