This week, we answer a Bookstagram challenge from @duttonbooks 

What was the last book that...

• Made you stay up all night
• You think everyone should read
• Inspired you to get into a new genre
• Made you cry for hours
• You Couldn't stop thinking about

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Books We Talked About

I’m Not Done With You Yet

The Flash Girls

The Murder Between Us

The Push

Kismet

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Him

Daisy Jones and The Six

Follow the River

The Trap

Dysfunctional

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This week, Gare and I talk with May Cobb about her summer thriller A Likeable Woman!

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Books We Talked About

A Likeable Woman

I'm Not Done With You Yet

A Friend in the Dark

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This week, we talk about fall thrillers you should pre-order!

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Books We Talked About

Bright Young Women

Midnight Is The Darkest Hour

Shadowheart

The Helsinki Affair

The Flash Girls

Necessary People

The Futures

When I’m Dead

Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen

The Taken Ones

The Traitor

Blood Sisters

This Is How We End Things

Christmas Presents

Dreambound

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This week, I talk to Kimberly Giarratano about her noir PI mystery Death of a Dancing Queen.

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Death of a Dancing Queen Synopsis

After her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Billie Levine revamped her grandfather’s private investigation firm and set up shop in the corner booth of her favorite North Jersey deli hoping the free pickles and flexible hours would allow her to take care of her mom and pay the bills. So when Tommy Russo, a rich kid with a nasty drug habit, offers her a stack of cash to find his missing girlfriend, how can she refuse? At first, Billie thinks this will be easy earnings, but then her missing person's case turns into a murder investigation and Russo is the detective bureau’s number one suspect.

Suddenly Billie is embroiled in a deadly gang war that’s connected to the decades-old disappearance of a famous cabaret dancer with ties to both an infamous Jewish mob and a skinhead group. Toss in the reappearance of Billie’s hunky ex-boyfriend with his own rap sheet, and she is regretting every decision that got her to this point.

Becoming a P.I. was supposed to solve her problems. But if Billie doesn’t crack this case, the next body the police dredge out of the Hudson River will be hers.

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This week, Gare and I chat with Elizabeth Keenan and Greg Wands, the writing duo behind the pseudonym E.G. Scott!  We get into our shared love for bleak endings, our thoughts on the direction of true crime docs and podcasts, what we've been reading and watching, and tons more!

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Books We Talked About

My Murder

The Trap

Their Vicious Games

The Quiet Tenant

Bright Young Women

TV Shows We Talked About

The Patient

Silo

Platonic

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This week, I talk with Amy Suiter Clarke about her newest psychological thriller Lay Your Body Down. 

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Lay Your Body Down Synopsis

A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poisoned everyone’s minds—and may be covering up a murder. After Del Walker fled her small hometown and its cult-like church, she vowed to never return. The man she loved, Lars, left her to marry the local golden girl Eve, and their romance is now the focus of Eve’s viral blog espousing the pastor’s conservative philosophy about women and marriage. But six years later, Lars is suddenly killed, and she’s convinced it couldn’t have been an accident.

When Del returns to her hometown for the funeral, she discovers the now mega-church—and the insidious, patriarchal teachings of Pastor Rick Franklin—has grown not only in size but in influence. Eve was clearly discontent in her marriage, despite the carefully constructed “Noble Wife” positivity of her blog posts, and Del knows better than anyone just how far she will go to get what she wants. Del is determined to cut through the church’s lies and corruption to find out who killed Lars—even if it means confronting the religious trauma she’s spent years trying to bury.

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This week, Gare and I make a new best friend in Halley Sutton, author of The Hurricane Blonde out August 8, 2023!  We dive into everything from Hollywood's treatment of women to the inherent perfection of Taco Bell.  

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This week, I talk with Shari Lapena about her newest domestic thriller Everyone Here Is Lying.

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Everyone Here Is Lying Synopsis

William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper.

Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing.

Suddenly Stanhope doesn't feel so safe. And William isn't the only one on his street who's hiding a lie. As witnesses come forward with information that may or may not be true, Avery's neighbors become increasingly unhinged.

Who took Avery Wooler?

Nothing will prepare you for the truth.

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This week, we share 5 books we recently added to our TBRs, and all of the dogs make appearances.

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Books We Talked About

Blood Oranges

Don’t Let Her Stay

Tomorrow I Become a Woman

The Pledge

Strange Sally Diamond

Everyone Here Is Lying

The Marriage Counselor

Night Will Find You

We Are All The Same in the Dark

Redemption

The House of Eve

The Followers

Follow Me

The Hurricane Blonde

The Final Girl Support Group

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This week, we talk with Amy Engel about her newest thriller I Did It For You, out July 25!

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