Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their most anticipated book for the second half of 2025.

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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend some of their favorite mystery and thriller audiobooks.

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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend mysteries and thrillers for Pride Month.

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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend summer reads!

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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend books from this year's Edgar Awards finalists!

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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester celebrate 200 hundred episodes of Read or Dead!

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1849 titles

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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend genre-defying mysteries, thrillers, and horror novels!

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The American Library Association has sued the Trump administration for the gutting of IMLS. Attorneys general from 21 states have also filed a lawsuit

EveryLibrary condemns the Trump administration’s termination of IMLS grants as an attack on libraries, museums, and archives everywhere

Tracking the Trump Administration’s attacks on libraries

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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

When No One is Looking by Alyssa Cole

Himself by Jess Kidd

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Opal Watson: Private Eye by Brittany J. Thurman

Coram House by Bailey Seybolt

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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books from their never-ending backlist TBRs.

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Robert de Niro is starring in the adaptation of Alex North’s thriller, The Whisper Man

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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester recommend mysteries and thrillers for book clubs!

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Louise Penny announces that she will not have any book tour dates in the US

Happiness Falls - Angie Kim

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century - Kirk Wallace Johnson

Those We Thought We Knew - David Joy

My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Serial Killer Support Group - Saratoga Schaefer

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man): A Vera Wong Novel - Jesse Q. Sutanto

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Katie McLain Horner and honorary reading assassin Liberty Hardy talk about mysteries with feminist themes for Women's History Month.

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Bram Stoker Award finalists

Janelle Monáe to Play Tanya Smith, Con Artist Behind $40 Million Heist, in ‘Never Saw Me Coming’ Movie Adaptation

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Katabasis - R.F. Kuang

Notes on an Execution - Danya Kukafka

Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll

Never Saw Me Coming - Vera Kurian

My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Broken Fields - Marcie R. Rendon

Black Tunnel White Magic: A Murder, a Detective’s Obsession, and ’90s Los Angeles at the Brink - Matthew McGough, Rick Jackson

Kills Well With Others - Deanna Raybourne

Accidents Happen - F.H. Batacan

The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York - Elon Green

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