Katie and Rincey talk about a seven-figure film deal, Stranger Things, and celebrate their two year anniversary by talking about Nancy Drew. This episode is sponsored by Everything Trying to Kill You and In The Darknessby Mike Omer, A Nearly Normal Familyby M. T. Edvardsson. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspectsnewsletter! Show Notes Paramount makes a 7-figure film deal for the upcoming book The Chain by Adrian McKinty Final trailer for Stranger ThingsSeason 3 ‘Lock Every Door’ Series Based On Novel In Works At Paramount TV & Anonymous Content With ‘True Blood’ Duo ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Drama From David E. Kelley & A+E Studios Gets CBS Series Production Commitment The Not-So-Hidden Racism of Nancy Drew Why Does It Matter Who Wrote Nancy Drew, Anyway? Books Mentioned The Phantom of Pine Hillby Carolyn Keene The Secret of the Golden Pavilion by Carolyn Keene The Clue in the Crossword Cipher by Carolyn Keene The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Herby Melanie Rehak Girls Like Usby Cristina Alger Whisper Networkby Chandler Baker The Chainby Adrian McKinty The Stories You Tellby Kristen Lepionka The Gone Deadby Chanelle Benz, Murder in the Crooked House by Soji Shimada and Louise Heal Kawai Just What Kind of Mother Are You?by Paula Daly Lock Every Door by Riley Sager Killers of the Flower Moonby David Grann Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey talk about some mysteries by Australian authors, along with some news about Linda Fairstein, women writing in the mystery genre, and more.  This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Amazon Publishing, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspectsnewsletter! Show Notes Dutton Will Drop Linda Fairstein Linda Fairstein's WSJ Op-Ed Linda Fairstein Jumps Into Debate About Linda Fairstein on Authors Guild Message Board Sara Paretsky Letter to the Editor He wrote/she wrote. On gender in mystery writing Attica Locke and Tembi Locke Talk Sisterhood, Writing, and Being Brave Books Mentioned The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina Watching Youby Michael Robotham Crimson Lakeby Candace Fox The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson Big Skyby Kate Atkinson  The Van Apfel Girls Are Goneby Felicity McLean  They All Fall Downby Rachel Howzell Hall Our Houseby Louise Candlish Speaking of Summerby Kalisha Buckhanon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In honor of Pride month, Katie and Rincey spend some time talking about mystery books by LGBTQ+ authors. This episode is sponsored by All the Books, The Shallowsby Matt Goldman, and Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murderedby Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspectsnewsletter! Show Notes Exclusive: One of Us Is Lying author Karen McManus reveals what's Next Books Mentioned  A Kind of Justice by Renee James Death Prefers Blondesby Caleb Roehrig Those Peopleby Louise Candlish Recursion by Blake Crouch Grab a Snake By the Tailby Leonardo Padura Miracle Creekby Angie Kim Clueby Paul Allor, illustrated by Nelson Dániel Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Marriedby Abby Ellin See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey talk Nora Roberts hitting a major milestone, more lists featuring just white authors, and some mysteries by Asian and Asian American authors! This episode is sponsored by Audible, Amazon Publishing and The Rule of Many by Leslie Saunders and Ashley Saunders, and Looking For Garbo by Jon James Miller Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspectsnewsletter! Show Notes Exclusive: Nora Roberts on her J.D. Robb In Death series getting its 50th book Nancy Drew first look 50 great thrillers by (white) women 2019 Anthony Award Nominations Announced Books Mentioned Miracle Creekby Angie Kim The Frangipani Tree Mysteryby Ovidia Yu Newcomer by Keigo Higashino, translated by Giles Murray The Favorite Daughter by Kaira Rouda The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Mythby Josh Levin Into the Jungleby Erica Ferencik The Book Case by Dave Shelton Cari Mora by Thomas Harris The Sentence is Deathby Anthony Horowitz Evil Things by Katja Ivar See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey talk about the Edgar Awards, the Agatha Awards, and infuriating cookie giving This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Westsideby W.M. Akers, and The Fifth Doctrineby Karen Robards Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Trailer for We Have Always Lived in the Castle Is the hipster mystery a thing? Simon Pegg & Nick Frost’s Stolen Picture To Adapt Ben Aaronovitch’s Epic Fantasy Drama ‘Rivers of London’ Edgar Award Winners Agatha Award winners The Writer's Mag tweet Lee Child and Paul Doiron on strong, interesting, complex female characters Books Mentioned Tiny Pretty Thingsby Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton My Sister, the Serial Killerby Oyinkan Braithwaite; See What I Have Doneby Sarah Schmidt Girl Waits With Gunby Amy Stewart A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Leeby Casey Cep If She Wakesby Michael Koryta The Satapur Moonstoneby Sujata Massey The Things She’s Seenby Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina Billion Dollar Whaleby Tom White & Bradley Hope The Frangipani Tree Mysteryby Ovidia Yu An Elderly Woman Is Up To No Good by Helene Tursten and Marlaine Delargy Newcomerby Keigo Higashino Miracle Creekby Angie Kim Evil Thingsby Katja Ivar See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey catch up after an episode apart and pick up books from some new-to-them authors. This episode is sponsored by Libro fm, Flatiron Books, publishers of I Know Who You Areby Alice Feeney, and The Hummingbird Daggerby Cindy Anstey from Swoon Reads. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspectsnewsletter! Show Notes ‘The Last Mrs. Parrish’: Drama Series Based On Novel In Works At Amazon With Cathy Schulman & Jeff Gaspin Producing ‘Doctor Foster’ Producer Drama Republic To Adapt Sara Collins’ Period Novel ‘The Confessions of Frannie Langton’ For TV Skyhorse forms Arcade CrimeWise imprint  Law & Crime partners with Simon & Schuster Books Mentioned They All Fall Downby Rachel Howzell Hall 99 Ways to Dieby Ed Lin The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth The Invited by Jennifer McMahon Little Darlings by Melanie Golding At Home in the Darkedited by Lawerence Block A Deadly Divideby Ausma Zehanat Khan The Frangipani Tree Mysteryby Olvidia Yu  The Satapur Moonstoneby Sujata Massey  As Long As We Both Shall Liveby Joann Cheney  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and guest host Vanessa Diaz talk about book-to-movie adaptations, their mutual love for the movie Clue, and more! This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Center of the Universe by Ria Voros, and Redemption Point by Candice Fox. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Paramount TV, Anonymous to Adapt Susan Orlean’s ‘The Library Book’ Netflix Makes Film Deal For Mary Kubica Novel ‘The Other Mrs.’ ‘Black Mass’ Writer Tackling ‘Conan Doyle for the Defense’ Adaptation ‘Death in Paradise’ Producer Red Planet Pictures To Adapt Louise Candlish’s Real-Estate Nightmare Novel ‘Our House’ For TV A ‘Clue’-Inspired YA Novel Is Coming Out This Year — Start Reading ‘In The Hall With The Knife’ Now Books Mentioned The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper – Hallie Rubenhold In a Dark Dark Wood – Ruth Ware They All Fall Down – Rachel Howzell Hall Confessions of an Innocent Man – David R. Dow The Last – Hanna Jameson Diary of a Murderer: And Other Stories – Young-Ha Kim The Satapur Moonstone – Sujata Massey Murder By the Book – Claire Harman Blood Harvest – S.J. (Sharon) Bolton See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode, Katie and Rincey pick up mystery books featuring disabled protagonists. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and The Perfect Girlfriendby Karen Hamilton.  Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspectsnewsletter! Show Notes Hot Series Package: Steve Zaillian Meets Patricia Highsmith’s Sociopath Tom Ripley Coming soon: Winter Countsby David Heska Wanbli Weiden to your lists: an #ownvoices Native American thriller! Dan Mallory, Author Who Once Faked Being British, Nominated for British Book Award Damien Power Tapped To Direct ‘No Exit’ Thriller For 20th Century Fox Crime Fiction Book List: Disabled isn’t Unable Books Mentioned Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton Blackman’s Coffinby Mark De Castrique  My Lovely Wifeby Samantha Downing Murder Lo Meinby Vivien Chien Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London by Claire Harman The Spectatorsby Jennifer DuBois Ask Me No Questions: A Lady Dunbridge Mystery by Shelley Noble Frangipani Tree Mystery by Olvidia Yu The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey talk about the big college admissions scam (because how could they not?) and provide some creepy book picks for a reader's book club. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, The Huntressby Kate Quinn, and Save Me From Dangerous Menby S.A. Lelchuk. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspectsnewsletter! Show Notes Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories to Develop Miss Marple Series From Agatha Christie Novels FX To Turn Don Winslow’s Epic Cartel Drug War Novel Trilogy Into TV Series Russell Hornsby To Headline ‘Lincoln’ NBC Pilot Based On ‘The Bone Collector’ Books Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin among 50 charged in college admissions scam for unworthy kids, prosecutors say Books Mentioned Bad Bloodby John Carreyrou The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastleby Stuart Turton Forty Acresby Dwayne Alexander Smith The Good Houseby Tananarive Due My Sister Rosaby Justine Larbalestier The Trial of Lizzie Bordenby Cara Robertson A Dangerous Collaborationby Deanna Raybourn House on Fireby Bonnie Kistler The Plottersby Un-Su Kim Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escapeby Jenna Miscavige Hill See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey talk about the history of mysteries and thrillers and espionage novels. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, What We Buriedby Kate A. Boorman, A Justified Murderby Jude Deveraux Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspectsnewsletter! Show Notes Mila Kunis Snaps Up TV Rights to Journalist Andrea Bartz's New Thriller, The Lost Night Men and Women - Thrillers and Mysteries Vanity Fair’s Gwyneth Hughes is writing a new drama about Jack the Ripper’s victims Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio Developing ‘The Devil in the White City’ At Hulu With Paramount TV Books Mentioned An American Spyby Lauren Wilkinson Liar’s Candleby August Thomas Hunting Gameby Helene Tursten Smoke and Ashesby Abir Mukherjee A Question of Holmesby Brittany Cavallaro The Devil Aspectby Craig Russell Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller We Have Always Lived in the Castleby Shirley Jackson The Descentby Tim Johnston The Perfect Nannyby Leila Slimani Baby Teethby Zoje Stage See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey talk adaptations coming of Karin Slaughter and Bill Clinton's books, and the ridiculous story about Dan Mallory a.k.a. AJ Finn. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Never Let Goby Elizabeth Goddard and Revell Books, and Bookclubbish. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspectsnewsletter! Show Notes Christopher McQuarrie is bringing Bill Clinton's ridiculous mystery novel to Showtime ‘Pieces Of Her’: Netflix Orders Novel-Based Series From Lesli Linka Glatter, Charlotte Stoudt & Bruna Papandrea Hulu's The Act shares trailer for its Mommy Dead And Dearest adaptation Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom Murdered A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions Can we still enjoy The Woman in the Window? What will happen to Dan Mallory? Books Mentioned Felicity Carrol and the Perilous Pursuitby Patricia Marcantonio The Black Coatsby Colleen Oakes Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in Americaby Kyle Swenson The Birds That Stayby Ann Lambert A Deadly Divide by Ausma Zehanat Khan The Reckoningby Yrsa Sigurdardottir Liar’s Candleby August Thomas Bitter Orangeby Claire Fuller Force of Natureby Jane Harper American Spyby Lauren Wilkinson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson; The Descentby Tim Johnston See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey talk about the Agatha awards and Edgar Award nominees, more adaptation news and some mysteries written by Black authors. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Bookclubbish, Fate: An Uncle Chow Tung Novelby Ian Hamilton To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! Show Notes The Agatha Award nominees The Edgar Award nominees Netflix Begs People to Stop Calling Serial Killer Ted Bundy ‘Hot’ ‘Dare Me’ Gets USA Series Order With Netflix Coming In As International Distributor Books Mentioned A Dark & Deadly Deceptionby Eleanor Taylor Bland August Snowby Stephen Mack Jones Death Prefers BlondesbyCaleb Roehrig SpinbyLamar Giles Evil ThingsbyKatja Ivar The Silent PatientbyAlex Michaelides The Hiding PlacebyCJ Tudor The PlottersbyUn-Su Kim Come Find MebyMegan Miranda The Lost ManbyJane Harper Sweet Little Liesby Caz Fear Lethal WhitebyRobert Galbraith Force of NaturebyJane Harper See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey talk about mysteries books written by Native and Indigenous authors.  This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Last Woman Standingby Amy Gentry, As Long As We Both Shall Liveby JoAnn Chaney To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Bluebird Bluebird sequel! Sarah Michelle Gellar To Star In ‘Sometimes I Lie’ Limited Series From Ellen DeGeneres & Warner Bros TV 5 books about missing & murdered indigenous women in Canada How Indigenous Writers are Elevating True Crime  Books Mentioned Murder on the Red Riverby Marcie Rendon Girl Gone Missingby Marcie Rendon Deception on All Accountsby Sara Sue Hoklotubbe That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Awayby Lorimer Shenher Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Marriedby Abby Ellin No Exitby Taylor Adams The Nowhere Child by Christian White The Golden Tresses of the Deadby Alan Bradley The Vanishing Stairby Maureen Johnson I’ll Be Gone in the Darkby Michelle McNamara The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastleby Stuart Turton See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey talk about the 2019 mysteries and thrillers that they are most excited for! This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, KissConand Before We Were Strangersby Brenda Novak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey run down their favorite mystery, thriller and true crime books of the year! This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal and Before We Were Strangers by Brenda Novak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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While Katie is off honeymooning, Rincey is joined by Liberty Hardy and rave about the amazingness that is Agatha Christie. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, In Too Deep by Lynn H. Blackburn and The Kingfisher Secret from McClelland & Stewart See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey talk about a very cool program Stephen King runs and some of the upcoming releases that they are very excited about. This episode is sponsored by Death by the River by Alexandrea Weis and Lucas Astor and Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey talk about some casting news, other exciting podcasts, lots of Tana French mentions, plus some book recommendations for Hispanic Heritage Month! This episode is sponsored by TBR, Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand, and Broken Things by Lauren Oliver See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey have some fun discussing some mystery adaptations and read and recommend books with LGBTQ protagonists. This episode is sponsored by TBR, The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, I Know You Know by Gilly Macmillan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey discuss historical mysteries, Serial season 3 and more. This episode is sponsored by TBR, The Boy at the Keyhole by Stephen Giles and Hollywood Dead by Richard Kadrey. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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