This week, Stpeh Lauer @books.in.badgerland and I talk about our favorite revenge thrillers!

Books We Talked About

The Last Housewife

The Weight of Blood

Kill for Me, Kill for You

The Golden Cage

Look Closer

Mindfuck Series

An Inconvenient Woman

You Know Her

Never Saw Me Coming

They Never Learn

Lay Your Body Down

The Change

Ask for Andrea

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This week, I talk with M.M. DeLuca about her newest thriller The Night Side.  We dive into what draws her to writing thrillers, inspiration from her family for this book, and the staying power of thrillers with character development.

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This week, Halley Sutton returns!  

We talk about her experience in a month long residency in France, writing processes, books about writing, and books we've read and loved recently.  

Books We Talked About

Story Genius

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

The Night Side

Disappearing Earth

Everybody Knows

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This week, Audrey Egener aka @chaptersandconverse shares some of her favorite thrillers, and we talk about our favorite parts of Bookstagram and BookTube!

Books We Talked About

Jar of Hearts

Final Girls

The Kind Worth Killing

Th1rt3en

Ralph’s Party

And Then There Were None

The Secret History

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This week, Steph Lauer aka @books.in.badgerland shares some of her favorite thrillers, and we discuss our favorite parts of the Bookstagram community!

Books We Talked About

The Mindf*ck Series

Listen for the Lie

Don’t Forget the Girl

Chain Gang All Stars

Almost Surely Dead

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This week, Kate shares thrillers she can't wait to read coming out in Spring 2024.

Books Discussed

Missing White Woman

A Lovely Lie

The Man Who Saw Seconds

You Know What You Did

While We Were Burning

Daughter of Mine

She's Not Sorry

The Last Murder at the End of the World

When I'm Her

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This week, we share books that match the vibes of movies and TV shows.

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If you liked the TV show Mr. and Mrs. Smith, you might like First Lie Wins

If you liked the movie Gone Girl, you might like Finding Tessa

If you liked the movie American Fiction, you might like The Other Black Girl

If you liked the movie Luckiest Girl Alive, you might like Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

If you liked the TV show Bad Sisters, you might like An Inconvenient Woman

If you liked the movie Cruel Intentions, you might like Infamous Park Avenue Prince

If you liked the TV show Jessica Jones, you might like Death of a Dancing Queen

If you liked the movie American Psycho, you might like Kill for Love

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This week, we share books that had huge hype around them that we loved reading!

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Verity

Gone Girl

Where the Crawdads Sing

The Girl on the Train

The Silent Patient

Twilight

The Hunger Games

Fifty Shades of Grey

Big Little Lies

Pretty Little Liars

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This week, I talk with Sagit Schwartz about how she integrated her own experiences with her mother, eating disorders AND the opioid crisis into her emotional, action-packed thriller Since She's Been Gone!

Synopsis

Can we ever truly know the people we love?

Losing her mother to a hit-and-run at age 15 threw Beatrice “Beans” Bennett’s life into turmoil. Bereft, she developed a life-threatening eating disorder, and went through a challenging recovery process which paved the way for her work as a clinical psychologist decades later. 

When a new patient arrives at her office and insists that Beans’s mother is still alive—and in danger—Beans is forced to revisit her past in order to uncover the truth. She learns the “patient” is a member of a notorious family that owns a drug company largely responsible for the national opioid epidemic, and that her mother was once tangled in their web. In a race against time—and her mother’s assailants—while once again facing the disorder she thought she’d put behind her, Beans discovers that, like herself, her mother had a devastating secret. 

With its fast-moving, edge-of-your-seat action and intimate look at mental health, Since She’s Been Gone will keep readers in its grasp long after the last page.

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This week, we share books that A24 Films should adapt into movies!

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Ace of Spades

Nice Girls

Bath Haus

Seeing Strangers

Prophet

Real Easy

The Lady Upstairs

Look What You Made Me Do

Almost Surely Dead

How We Named the Stars

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