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Katie and Rincey appreciate talking about some good news and get into the fall spirit with some dark, creepy campus novels. This episode is sponsored by TBR, And Now She’s Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall and Chaos by Iris Johansen. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Jordan Harper, author of She Rides Shotgun, tweeted that he’s turned in the manuscript for his second novel Layne Fargo’s novel They Never Learn is being adapted for TV Zac Efron is going to star in the new adaptation of Firestarter [Deadline] Amazon is adapting the forthcoming Jo Nesbo book, The Jealousy Man [Deadline] James Patterson donates $2.5 million to teachers to help them create classroom and at-home libraries for students [Publisher’s Weekly] Books Mentioned Dead Scared by Sharon Bolton Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam Snow by John Banville

Katie and Rincey pick up some fun Scooby-Doo themed books based on a listener request and get really excited about some recent reads. This episode is sponsored by TBR, White Fox by Sara Faring and Size Zero by Abigail Mangin. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes National Book Foundation to present Lifetime Achievement Award to Walter Mosley Westing Game’ Series Adaptation in the Works at HBO Max Amazon gets the rights to All the Old Knives, a thriller by Olen Steinhaurer, and starring Chris Pine and Thandie Newton Joe Ruby Dies: ‘Scooby Doo’ Co-Creator Was 87 Books Mentioned Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero The Vanishing Girl by Josephine Ruby The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman And Now She’s Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall The Book of Lamps and Banners by Elizabeth Hand The Cabin on Souder Hill by Lonnie Busch When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole Diamo

Katie and Rincey talk about mysteries featuring technology and social media, along with some mixed feelings about adaptation news recently announced. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney, and Shadows in Death by J.D. Robb. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Steph Cha tapped as New American Mysteries anthology editor HBO is doing a TV adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Sphere Pretty Little Liars based on the books by Sara Shepard is being rebooted Watch the trailer for I’m Thinking of Ending Things Books Mentioned Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight Little Brother by Cory Doctrow One by One by Ruth Ware The Sleeping Nymph by Ilaria Tuti, translated by Ekin Oklap Grown by Tiffany D Jackson Don’t Look For Me by Wendy Walker The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson The Golden Thread by Ravi Somaiya When No One

Katie and Rincey talk adaptation news, including the Dan Mallory movie, and take a walk down memory lane with middle grade mystery books. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Size Zero by Abigail Mangin, and Thick as Thieves by Sandra Brown. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus is set for TV Jade City by Fonda Lee is headed to Peacock Apple+ has ordered the first ever animated adaptation of Harriet the Spy Elisabeth Moss is starring in the adaptation of Virginia Feito’s upcoming thriller, Mrs. March There’s going to be a TV show based on the New Yorker article that brought Daniel Mallory’s (aka AJ Finn) scams to light Books Mentioned In the Hall With the Knife by Diane Peterfreund Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Yumiko Yamakazi Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden When No

Katie and Rincey talk about a new Megan Abbott book, Unsolved Mysteries, cold cases and more! This episode is sponsored by TBR, The First To Lie by Hank Phillippi Ryan, and The Nemesis Manifesto by Eric Van Lustbader. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes John Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co & Sony Pictures TV Developing ‘Paper Gods’ For ABC; Nia Long To Star & EP In Political Drama Sisters in Crime announce the winner of the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award Megan Abbott has a new book coming out in 2021 and it’s already been picked up for TV Books Mentioned Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch The Monsters We Make by Kali White Three by D.A. Mishani, translated by Jessica Cohen 21 Immortals by Rozlan Mohd Noor The Less Dead by Denise Mina The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao

Katie and Rincey get excited about adaptations of The Shining Girls and Magpie Murders, and talk about mystery books by Black authors that they’ve recently picked up. This episode is sponsored by TBR, His & Hers by Alice Feeney and The Truth Hurts by Rebecca Reid. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Shirley Jackson Award Winners ‘Magpie Murders’ Drama Series Adaptation Set On PBS’ Masterpiece Elisabeth Moss is starring in the upcoming Apple adaptation of Lauren Beukes’s thriller The Shining Girls NOIR IS THE NEW BLACK Kickstarter Books Mentioned Three Fifths by John Vercher Paper Gods by Goldie Taylor The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Sáenz Death of a Telenovela Star by Teresa Dovalpage Imperfect Women by Araminta Hall A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie and Rincey catch up on the news they missed, including lawsuits featuring Dan Brown and the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle estate, and read some locked room mysteries in honor of not leaving their homes. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Size Zero by Abigail Mangin and The Patient by Jasper DeWitt. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Adrian McKinty’s thriller The Chain is getting a film adaptation Oscar Isaac is starring in the movie London, which is based on a short story by Jo Nesbo and will be directed by Ben Stiller Blythe Brown has filed a lawsuit against her ex-husband, Dan Brown, for leading a double life during their marriage The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle estate is suing Netflix over their upcoming Enola Holmes adaptation Maureen Johnson announces a fourth book in the Truly Devious series Books Mentioned No Exit by Taylor Adams Murder in the Crooked House

Katie and Rincey talk about lots of new award nominees that have been announced and pick out books featuring LGBTQ+ characters for Pride Month! This episode is sponsored by Hey YA, Don’t Make a Sound by T.R. Ragan and One Last Lie by Paul Doiron. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Rachel Howzell Hall has a new crime novel coming out! Harlem mystery author Grace Edwards has died at age 87 The trailer for You Should Have Left CWA Dagger Award longlists The Shirley Jackson Award shortlist Anthony Award shortlist Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer has been nominated for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Prize Books Mentioned The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling Stolen Things by R.H. Herron The Kill Club by Wendy Heard Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht Deep as Death by Katja Ivar The Swap by Robyn Harding The

Katie and Rincey talk about the new James Patterson and Bill Clinton book, a new Lisbeth Salander adaptation and mystery short story collections. This episode is sponsored by TBR, The Last Flight by Julie Clark, and Sister Dear by Hannah Mary McKinnon. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes James Patterson and Bill Clinton announce their second book, The President’s Daughter, which is a standalone and not a sequel to The President is Missing Shortlist for the 2020 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction We’re getting close to an Amazon adaptation of Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache crime novels Manny Jacinto joins the cast of Nine Perfect Strangers ‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Series Based On Lisbeth Salander Character In Works At Amazon Netflix is doing a TV adaptation of Anatomy of a Scandal Trailer for the documentary based on I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Mic

Katie and Rincey talk about Jane Harper's new novel, the French serial killer expert who apparently isn't an expert and books featuring religious elements that are not by Dan Brown. This episode is sponsored by Lit Stitch, Devoted by Dean Koontz, and Book Riot Insiders. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes See the cover of the new Jane Harper novel! The filmmakers behind Doctor Sleep are tackling Stephen King’s novel Revival next HBO Max is adapting Throttle by Stephen King and Joe Hill SPOILER ALERT! The ending to the Defending Jacob adaptation is totally different than the book Christopher Pike’s Midnight Club is being adapted as a Netflix series Check out the trailer for Shirley, starring Elisabeth Moss as Shirley Jackson French author and serial killer expert Stéphane Bourgoin admits that much of his nonfiction work was made up Books Mentioned Shamed by L

Katie and Rincey discuss the Edgar Award winners, Tana French's new book and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Libro FM, and The Sunday Girl. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes The 2020 Edgar Awards winners have been announced Watch the acceptance speeches on the Edgar Awards' YouTube channel A preview of Tana French’s upcoming novel, The Searcher A sequel to the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark film is in the works Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is getting a film adaptation Trailer for Lovecraft Country 100 Years of Agatha Christie Stories Books Mentioned The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight Seven Years of Darkness by You-Jeong Jeong The Boy in the Red Dress by Kristin Lambert A Deadly Inside Scoop by

While they are self-quarantining, Katie and Rincey decide to tackle some of the oldest mystery and true crime books on their TBR. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier and Sisters in Crime. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Hulu’s already snapped up rights to Zakiya Dalila Harris’ upcoming novel The Other Black Girl Our fellow Book Rioter Tirzah Price has an upcoming Jane Austen murder mystery series for teens!  Netflix Picks Up Millie Bobby Brown's 'Enola Holmes' from Legendary Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners Announced Perry Mason trailer Books Mentioned The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch Pretty Things by Janelle Brown Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar The Split by Sharon Bolton If It Bleeds by Stephen King The Sun Down Motel by Simone St James The Boy in t

Katie and Rincey talk about some changing release dates, Tiger King, and the books they turn to when they need some comfort. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Libro.fm. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Here’s the first trailer for Defending Jacob, starring Chris Evans Nicole Kidman is producing and starring in the adaptation of Janelle Brown’s Pretty Things The Killing Eve premiere has been bumped up by 2 weeks Stephen King’s book If It Bleeds is getting moved up from May 5th to late April Christopher Meloni is headlining a new spinoff series as Elliott Stabler from Law & Order: SVU Are we getting a surprise new episode of Tiger King on Netflix? Books Mentioned The Likeness by Tana French The Betel Nut Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu Broken by Don Winslow The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder & Mayhem From History’s Most Notorious Ser

Katie and Rincey thank the mystery gods for a new Tana French potentially coming this fall, talk about some great mystery small presses. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Gone by Midnight by Candice Fox published by Forge Books, and Cross Her Heart by Melinda Leigh. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Lucy Alibar, who wrote the screenplay for Beasts of the Southern Wild, will be adapting the screenplay for Where the Crawdads Sing David Lagercrantz announces a modern Sherlock Holmes series for 2021 The new Tana French book is up on Amazon! The best crime fiction small presses Books Mentioned Zero Saints by Gabino Iglesias The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts The Herd by Andrea Bartz Brown Girl Ghosted by Mintie Das Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel American Animals: A True Crime Memoir by Eric Borsuk The

Katie and Rincey talk about how the ghost of Agatha Christie might be haunting a museum, Snoop Dogg is adapting the IQ series, and read some backlist books. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Gone by Midnight by Candice Fox, and Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Mega best-selling author Clive Cussler dies at age 88 Barbara Neely, author of first black female series sleuth Blanche White, dies at 78 Martin Edwards wins the 2020 Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers’ Association Snoop Dogg’s production company is executive producing a series based on Joe Ide’s IQ series Rumor has it that the ghost of Agatha Christie is haunting the Torquay Museum and knocking her books (only her books!) off the shelves  Nicole Kidman’s production company acquires Samantha Downing’s bestselling psychological thriller My Lovely Wife NBC

Katie and Rincey give a rundown about the discussion around My Dark Vanessa and Excavation and then talk about some mysteries written by Latinx authors. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, The Lucky One by Lori Rader-Day, and Crooked River, the new Agent Pendergast novel from Preston & Child. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne are starring in the film adaptation of the true crime book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber Graham Moore’s latest novel, The Holdout, has been optioned for a Hulu series Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, is planning a Whitechapel mural to celebrate the lives of these women Why cozy mysteries are the hottest TV genre of 2020 Crime Writers of Color has a great list

Katie and Rincey pick out some mysteries with a romantic element to them to celebrate Valentine’s Day! This episode is sponsored by Get Booked: The Handsell, A Divided Loyalty by Charles Todd and Book Marks. 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 Suspects newsletter! SHOW NOTES Mary Higgins Clark has died at 92 What happens to your brain when you read true crime Walter Mosely is reportedly writing the film script for The Man in My Basement Netflix has optioned The Last by Hanna Jameson Matt Damon will star in the adaptation of Don Winslow’s The Force Toni Collette To Star In ‘Pieces Of Her’ Netflix Drama Series Trailer for The Undoing, which is based on the book You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz Trailer for Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse 44 Mystery Romance Novels to Read Right Now BOOKS MENTIONED My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. Jame

Katie and Rincey talk about the Edgar Award nominees and some genre-crossing SFF mysteries. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challengeand Lost Hills by Lee Goldberg. 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 Suspects newsletter! SHOW NOTES The Edgar Award nominees have been announced Lee Child is passing on the Jack Reacher series to his brother Andrew Grant, with the requirement that Andrew change his last name to “Child.”  Amazon is planning an Alex Cross TV series based on the James Patterson books Mindhunter Season 3 has been put on indefinite hold Trailer for the upcoming Netflix film, Lost Girls, based on the true crime book Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker BOOKS MENTIONED Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall  Hi Five by Joe Ide The Other People by C. J. Tudor The Look-Alike by Erica Spindler Djinn

Katie and Rincey catch up after the new year and talk about their feelings on Dublin Murders, the TV adaptation of In the Woods and The Likeness by Tana French. This episode is sponsored by Novel Gazing, The Lost Man by Jane Harper and Grace is Gone by Emily Elgar. 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 Suspects newsletter! Show Notes Nicole Kidman’s next project in development is Kimberly McCreight’s upcoming domestic thriller, A Good Marriage Melissa McCarthy is starring with Nicole Kidman in Hulu’s adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers Just Watch Me by Jeff Lindsay is on the way to its own TV series Trailer for The Woman in the Window Lee Child will be a judge for the 2020 Booker Prize  Books Mentioned In the Woods by Tana French The Likeness by Tana French The Missing American by Kwei Qwartey  The Tenant by Katrine Engberg The Janes by Louisa Luna The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Lif

Katie and Rincey celebrate the new year by talking about some of the books they are excited to pick up in the first half of 2020. This episode is sponsored by Read Harder Journal and If You Tell by Gregg Olsen. 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 Suspects newsletter! Books Mentioned Long Bright River by Liz Moore The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb The Burn by Kathleen Kent The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Only Child by Mi-ae Seo Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch Second Sister by Chan Ho-Kei, translated by Jeremy Tiang The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts The Deep by Alma Katsu Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor