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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

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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss mysteries and thrillers for AANHPI Heritage Month!
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Edgar Award Winners 2024
Pango Books

Books Discussed
Alma Katsu
The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen
The Return of Ellie Black - Emiko Jean 
The Spirit Glass - Roshani Chokshi 
Murder Casts a Shadow: A Hawai'i Mystery -  Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
The Hunter’s Daughter - Nicola Solvinic
Woodworm - Layla Martínez
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Book Picks for AANHPI Heritage Month

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books about cults!
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Things Mentioned
Webster’s Dictionary defines “cult” as…

Books Discussed
Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty 
Bunny - Mona Awad 
Catherine House - Elisabeth Thomas 
Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon 
Home Is Where The Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose
The Return of Ellie Black - Emiko Jean 
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Let's Get Cultish

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss mysteries and thrillers nominated for the 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Awards!
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Edgar Awards Preview

Books Discussed
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto
All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders - John Glatt
Murder By Degrees - Ritu Mukerji
One of Us Knows - Alyssa Cole 
Butter - Asako Yuzuki, trans. Polly Barton 
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The 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Awards

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss some books with a perfect sense of humor!
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News
Netflix is planning to adapt Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series 
50 Cent is publishing a financial heist novel, which is not a sentence I ever expected to write
The 2024 ITW Thriller Award finalists have been announced

Things Mentioned
Pango Books

Books Discussed
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone - Benjamin Stevenson
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto 
Ghost Squad - Claribel A. Ortega 
The Screaming Staircase - Jonathan Stroud
Cold to the Touch - Kerri Hakoda 
A Better World - Sarah Langan

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Kill Us with Laughs

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss European mysteries and thrillers!
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THINGS MENTIONED
Trans Rights Readathon March 22 - 29, 2024
BOOKS DISCUSSED
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Perfectly Nice Neighbors - Kia Abdullah 
Beneath the Mountain - Luca D’Andrea, translated from Italian Howard Curtis
The Jigsaw Man - Nadine Matheson 
Quicksand - Malin Persson Giolito, transl. from Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles
The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo
The Mystery Writer - Sulari Gentil 
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Mystery Reads by Black Authors

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