Synopsis
Read or Dead is a bi-weekly show dedicated to the worlds of mystery and thriller literature.
Episodes
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Time and Time Again
20/05/2022 Duration: 44minTune 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
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And The Award Goes To…
06/05/2022 Duration: 54minTune 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!
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You Never Forget Your First
22/04/2022 Duration: 46minTune 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
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Locked Up Tight
08/04/2022 Duration: 37minTune 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!
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Netflix and Read
25/03/2022 Duration: 54minTune 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!
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Short & Sweet
11/03/2022 Duration: 39minTune 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
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Mystery Reads by Black Authors
25/02/2022 Duration: 48minTune 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.
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What’s Love Got To Do With It?
11/02/2022 Duration: 43minTune 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.
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Murder, Menace, and Nuance
28/01/2022 Duration: 49minTune 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.
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Most Anticipated Reads of 2022
14/01/2022 Duration: 46minTune 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
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Resolutions and Reflections
17/12/2021 Duration: 45minTune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about their year-end favorites and reflect on reading goals for 2022. 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 Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty Books Discussed Girl A by Abigail Dean The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris Mrs. March by Virginia Feito The Secret Talker by Geling Yan Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 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 And we will talk to you all next time! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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History’s Mysteries
03/12/2021 Duration: 44minTune in as Katie and special guest velocireader Liberty talk about their favorite new and backlist historical mystery titles! 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! Currently Reading The Great American Deception – Scott Stein All Her Little Secrets – Wanda M. Morris Books Discussed Dangerous Women – Hope Adams A Study in Scarlet Women – Sherry Thomas Dead Dead Girls – Nekesa Afia Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey Clark and Division – Naomi Hirahara New Releases A History of Wild Places – Shea Ernshaw Murder Most Actual – Alexis Hall If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com Otherwise you can: Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady Find Liberty on Instagram @franzencomesalive And we will talk to you all next time! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Like This, Try that
19/11/2021 Duration: 54minTune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about read-a-likes for some favorite and popular authors and recommend contemporary works similar to them to make your holiday shopping easier. 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 Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna Books Discussed Cutting Season by Attica Locke (Elizabeth George) Razorblade Tears by S.A.Cosby (James McCain) Three by D.A.Mishani (Patricia Highsmith) Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan (Patricia Highsmith) Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight (Liane Moriarty) A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson (Paul Doiron) Red Widow by Alma Katsu (Daniel Silva) New Releases The Shadows of Men by Aber Mukherjee If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at reado
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Mysteries by Native American authors
05/11/2021 Duration: 43minTune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about mystery and suspense works by Native American authors in honor of National Native American Heritage 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. Currently Reading Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones Books Discussed All the Beautiful Sinners by Stephen Graham Jones The Round House by Louise Erdrich Evil Dead Center by Carole LaFavor Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan New Releases All Her Little Secrets by Wanda Morris Her Name Is Knight by Yasmine Angoe 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 And we will talk to you all next time! See omnyst
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Was that a creak or a scream?
22/10/2021 Duration: 47minTune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about horror and suspense reads set in haunted houses just in time for Halloween. 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 The Good House by Tananarive Due The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson Help For the Haunted by John Searles New Releases Five Strangers by E.V. Adamson Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest Otherwise, you can: Find me on Twitter @JavedNusrah Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady And we will talk to you all next time! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Slipped Under the Radar
08/10/2021 Duration: 43minTune in as All The Books host, Liberty, and Nusrah talk about mystery releases you may have missed in 2020 and 2021. 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 Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel Books Discussed What’s Left of Me is Yours by Stephanie Scott The Opium Prince by Jasmine Aimaq Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Gone for Good by Joanna Schaffhausen New Releases Reprieve by James Han Mattson Cackle by Rachel Harrison 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 Liberty on Instagram @franzencomesalive And we will talk to you all next time! See omnys
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You Will Never See It Coming
24/09/2021 Duration: 47minTune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about reads that took them on a twisty, turn-y journey. 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! Currently Reading A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Emma Southon Books Discussed Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Perfect Days by Raphael Montes We Were Liars by E.Lockhart New Releases Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living by Robert A. Jensen Fuzz by Mary Roach 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.
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Cults and Survivors
10/09/2021 Duration: 49minTune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about books featuring cults and people who become a part of 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. Currently Reading Final girls by Riley Sager Madam by Phoebe Wynn Books Discussed The Girls by Emma Cline The Night We Burned by S.F.Kosa Don’t Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman Black Widows by Cate Quinn New Releases My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.comOtherwise, you can:Find me on Twitter @JavedNusrahFind Katie on Twitter @ kt_librarylady See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Translated Works of Crime and Mystery
27/08/2021 Duration: 43minTune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about translated works of crime and mystery written by women authors for Women in Translation 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. Currently Reading The Witch Elm by Tana French Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Books Discussed The Lost Village by Camilla Sten The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz Mrs Mohr goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkowa New Releases A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall 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/listene
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Was that for real?
13/08/2021 Duration: 46minTune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about mysteries based on real-life happenings. Not to be confused with our episode where we talk about mysteries we can’t believe are not based in reality. 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 Home Before Dark by Riley Sager The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey Books Discussed The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict Frog Music by Emma Donoghue The Happiest Girl in the World by Alena Dillon The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani New Releases Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard 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_libraryla