Can you imagine a famous singer solving crimes? Or a former president and vice president? Brook and Sarah discuss this fun sub-genre of mystery fiction featuring real celebrities. Listen to find out who they would write as their own celebrity sleuths.

Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery (2018) Andrew Shaffer

White House Pantry Murder (1987) Elliott Roosevelt (featuring Eleanor Roosevelt)

Pale Blue Eye (2003) Louis Bayard

The Windsor Knot (2020) S.J. Bennet

Magpie Murders (2016) Anthony Horowitz

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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This week's episode is a little different: If you are doing some holiday shopping, we have a treat for you. Manon Wogahn (also known as Mystery Manon) talks about mystery with Brook and Sarah and shares some of the gifts on her annual Cluesletter Holiday Gift List, including a Clued in Mystery exclusive!

Manon's website

Manon on Instagram

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Liar? Naïve? Or impaired? What if the narrator of the story isn't telling the truth? In this week's episode, Brook and Sarah discuss surprising twists and the clues that they're coming.

Gone Girl (2012) Gillian Flynn

The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961) Wayne C. Booth

The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016) Ruth Ware

The Silent Patient (2019) Alex Michaelides

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) Agatha Christie

The Guest List (2020) Lucy Foley

One by One (2020) Ruth Ware

Rebecca (1938) Daphne Du Maurier

Forrest Gump (1994)

The Office (US)

Fight Club (1999)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

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Brook and Sarah continue their conversation about continuing the story. In this episode, they speak with Ann Claire about drawing inspiration from another author in her Christie Bookshop Mysteries.

Ann at Penguin Random House

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Facebook: Ann Claire Mysteries

Ann's website

A Carribean Mystery (1964) Agatha Christie

Dead and Gondola (2022) Ann Claire

Knives Out (2019)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

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Brook and Sarah discuss the different ways an author's world is continued after they stop creating it.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sue Grafton

Dorothy L. Sayers

Ian Fleming

Anthony Horowitz

Lee Child

Andrew Child

Agatha Christie

Sophie Hannah

Moneypenny Diaries series by Samantha Weinberg

Young Bond series by Charlie Higson

Enola Holmes series by Nancy Springer

Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mysteries by Vicki Delany

The Lady Sherlock Series by Sherry Thomas

Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene

Hardy Boys series Franklin W. Dixon

Blind Love (1890) Wilkie Collins

Carolyn Keene

Franklin W. Dixon

Death on the Nile (2022 film)

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/63973-how-i-wrote-a-new-agatha-christie-mystery.html

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Jane Kalmes, The Fiction Technician, joins Brook and Sarah to break down locked room mysteries and their solutions. Please note: This episode contains spoilers of two episodes of Monk and one of Murder She Wrote.

"Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival" Monk

"Death Casts a Spell" Murder She Wrote

"Mr. Monk and the Panic Room" Monk

"The Terribly Strange Bed" (1852) Wilkie Collins

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) Edgar Allen Poe

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A group of friends on a holiday retreat. A crime nobody could have committed. Sarah and Brook discuss closed circle and locked room mysteries and the links between the two.

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) Edgar Allan Poe

"A Terribly Strange Bed" (1852) Wilkie Collins

Murder on the Orient Express (1934) Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None (1939) Agatha Christie Death on the Nile (1937) Agatha Christie

The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016) Ruth Ware

One by One (2020) Ruth Ware

A Dark Dark Wood (2015) Ruth Ware

The Hunting Party (2018) Lucy Foley

The Guest List (2020) Lucy Foley

Death in Paradise (2011-present)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) Agatha Christie

John Dixon Carr

The Black Lizard Book of Locked Room Mysteries (2014)

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) Gaston Leroux

The Invitation (2022)

Knives Out (2019)

Knives Out 2 (2022)

http://crimebythebook.com/blog/2021/2/18/cbtbs-recommended-locked-room-mysteries

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Have you ever read a mystery where the sleuth is an author? Sarah and Brook discuss mysteries with writers as the central characters.

Hammett Unwritten (2013) Gordon McAlpine writing as Owen Fitzstephen

Agatha Christie Series by Andrew Wilson

Murder She Wrote

Castle

The Ghost (2007) Robert Harris

The Thirteenth Tale (2006) Diana Sutterfield

The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016) Ruth Ware

The Plot (2021) Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Vanished Bride (2019) Bella Ellis

The Word is Murder (2017) Anthony Horowitz

The Sentence is Death (2018) Anthony Horowitz

Kathy Reichs

Finlay Donovan series by Elle Cosimano

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What do you turn to when you're looking for a mystery without murder? In this week's episode, Brook and Sarah discuss some less violent, but very satisfying, mysteries.

Super Structure: The Key to Unleashing the Power of Story (2015) James Scott Bell

Gaudy Night (1935) Dorothy L Sayers

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts (2019) Kate Racculia

"L" is for Lawless (2009) Sue Grafton

"The Purloined Letter" (1844) Edgar Allan Poe

Gone Girl (2012) Gillian Flynn

Girl With a Dragon Tattoo (2005) Stieg Larsson

The Other Black Girl (2021) Zakia Delila Harris

National Treasure (2004)

The Mummy (1999)

Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock

Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock

Ace of Spades (2021) Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

One of Us is Next (2020) Karen M. McManus

Agent Running in the Field (2019) John le Carré

The Last Thing He Told Me (2021) Laura Dave

The Circle (2013) Dave Eggers

Nancy Drew

Hardy Boys

Scooby Doo

"The Theft of the Royal Ruby" (1961) Agatha Christie

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Last Séance (2019) Agatha Christie

Jane Eyre (1847) Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights (1847) Emily Brontë

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series Alexander McCall Smith

https://cozy-mystery.com/blog/cozy-mystery-book-without-a-murder/

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This week, USA Today best selling author Sara Rosett joins Brook and Sarah to discuss historical mystery.

Sara Rosett is the USA Today bestselling author of over 30 cozy and historical mysteries as well as books and courses for writers including "How to Write a Series" and "How to Outline a Cozy Mystery". She also hosts a podcast for readers, Mystery Books Podcast.

SaraRosett.com

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