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  • Female Rage Thrillers with Halley Sutton
    2024/11/22

    This week, Halley and I once again commit to one subject, and end up covering multiple. On top of some great female rage thriller recommendations, we dive into the film Heretic, talk about religions' obsessions with rules and workarounds, and get into a brief rant about twists verses reveals (more on that in future episodes).

    Books with Female Rage

    This GIrl’s a Killer

    In Defense of Witches

    The Lion Women of Tehran

    They Never Learn

    Their Vicious Games

    House Woman

    Her Name is Knight

    Smile and Look Pretty

    Hurt for Me

    A Certain Hunger

    Lay Your Body Down

    Out

    Eleven Percent

    The Lady Upstairs

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    1 時間 32 分
  • Jan Gangsei's Dead Below Deck: A Backwards Timeline, A Deadly Cruise and Complex Female Friendships
    2024/11/19

    This week, I got to talk with Jan Gangsei about her salacious new thriller Dead Below Deck! We dive into how the idea came to her, how she chose to structure it, and what drew her to YA.

    Dead Below Deck Synopsis

    It was supposed to be the best-ever girls’ trip: five days, four friends, one luxury yacht, no parents. But on the final night, as the yacht cruised the deep and dark waters between Florida and Grand Cayman, eighteen-year-old heiress Giselle vanished. She’s nowhere to be found the next morning even after a frantic search, until security footage surfaces . . . showing Maggie pushing her overboard.

    But Maggie has no memory of what happened. All she knows is that she woke up with a throbbing headache, thousands of dollars in cash in her safe, a passport that isn’t hers, and Giselle’s diary. And while Maggie had her own reasons to want Giselle dead, so did everyone else on board: jealous Viv, calculating Emi, even some members of the staff.

    What really went down on the top deck that night? Maggie will have to work her way backward to uncover the secrets that everyone—even Giselle—kept below deck or she’s dead in the water.

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    36 分
  • Thrillers from Indigenous Authors with Vanessa Lillie and Gare Billings
    2024/11/15

    This week Vanessa Lillie and Gare “Bleak” Billings share recommendations from Indigenous authors for Native American Heritage Month, and I think I might be reading fast paced, paranormal horror for the rest of the year!

    Check out these great recommendations:

    The Berry Pickers

    Blood Sisters

    Never Whistle at Night

    The Only Good Indians

    Bad Cree

    The Haunting of Room 904

    Shutter

    Winter Counts

    Where They Last Saw Her

    The Highway of Tears

    Never Name the Dead

    On the Savage Side

    And Then She Fell

    Venco

    Indian Burial Ground

    Sisters of the Lost Nation

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    1 時間 12 分
  • Emma. C Wells' This Girl's a Killer: A Feminist Vigilante, Preying on Male Predators, And Chosen Family
    2024/11/12

    This week, I got to talk with Emma C. Wells about her stunning debut serial killer thriller This Girl's a Killer! We dive into her inspiration for the book, how Cordelia was unavoidable for her, and the way women have to consider violence in ways men don't.

    This Girl's a Killer Synopsis

    Ask Cordelia Black why she did it. The answer will always be: He had it coming.

    Cordelia Black loves exactly three things: Her chosen family, her hairdresser (worth every penny plus tip), and killing bad men.

    By day she's an ambitious pharma rep with a flawless reputation and designer wardrobe. By night, she culls South Louisiana of unscrupulous men―monsters who think they've evaded justice, until they meet her. Sure, the evening news may have started throwing around phrases like "serial killer," but Cordelia knows that's absurd. She's not a killer, she is simply karma. And being karma requires complete and utter control.

    But when Cordelia discovers a flaw in her perfectly designed system for eliminating monsters, pressure heightens. And it only intensifies when her best friend starts dating a man Cordelia isn't sure is a good person. Someone who might just unravel everything she has worked for.

    Soon enough Cordelia has to come face to face with the choices she's made. The good, the bad, and the murderous. Both her family, and her freedom, depend on it.

    Check out Bitter Southerner where Emma got her Hell Hath No Fury shirt

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    58 分
  • Backlist Books We Want to Read with Gare and Steph
    2024/11/08

    This week, Gare, Steph and I share backlist books we really want to read. We also manage to sneak in two that aren't even really backlist, but we still want to read them too!

    Comfort Shows

    English Teacher

    Insecure

    Top Chef

    How to Die Alone

    Law & Order: SVU

    Books We Talked About

    Godshot

    The Year of the Witching

    The Lake of Lost Girls

    The Lighthouse Witches

    Beautiful People

    Playing Dead

    Black Sheep

    The Memory Police

    Return to Midnight

    Her Pretty Face

    The Bright Lands

    Eleven

    American Psycho

    The Cipher

    The Final Act

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    1 時間 27 分
  • Katherine Greene's The Lake of Lost Girls: Mixed Media, Missing Girls and The 90s
    2024/11/05

    This week I got to talk with writing duo Katherine Greene, made up of A. Meredith Walters and Claire C. Riley. We dive into how they became friends and writing partners, the initial image that was the inspiration for this story, and how they approach writing thrillers together.

    The Lake of Lost Girls Synopsis

    It's 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina. But freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and responsible student, is going through her own struggles. Just as her life seems to be careening dangerously out of control, she suddenly disappears.

    Twenty-four years later, Jessica's sister Lindsey is desperately searching for answers and uses the momentum of a new chart-topping true crime podcast, Ten Seconds to Vanish, that focuses on the cold cases, to guide her own investigation. Soon, interest reaches fever pitch when the bodies of the long-missing women begin turning up at a local lake, which leads Lindsey down a disturbing road of discovery.

    In the present, one sister seeks to untangle a complicated web of lies.
    In the past, the other descends ever deeper into a darkness that will lead to her ultimate fate.

    This propulsive and chilling suspense is a sharp examination of sisterhood and the culture of true crime.

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    41 分
  • Scandals: Evelyn Hugo, Hollywood Babylon, and More with Halley Sutton
    2024/11/02

    This week, Halley Sutton and I talk about scandals both fictional and non-fictional!

    Books, Movies, Docs We Talked About

    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

    The Sin Eater: The Crimes of Anthony Pellicano

    Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

    Once More From the Top

    Did You Hear About Kitty Karr

    Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara

    Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop

    Mommy Dead and Dearest

    I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth V. Michelle Carter

    Hollywood Babylon

    Missing White Woman

    The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

    La Cote Basque, 1965

    You're Wrong About

    The Favorites

    On the Surface

    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    The Hurricane Blonde

    The Lady Upstairs

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    1 時間 11 分
  • Danielle Trussoni's The Puzzle Box: Savant Syndrome, Puzzle Masters and a Japanese Puzzle Box
    2024/10/29

    This week, I talk with Danielle Trussoni about her new installment in The Puzzle Series, The Puzzle Box! We dive into how she created this genre-mashup of a series, what piqued her interest in puzzles, and the puzzle masters she works with for her books.

    The Puzzle Box Synopsis

    It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan, to open the legendary Dragon Box.

    The box was constructed during one of Japan’s most tumultuous periods, when the samurai class was disbanded and the shogun lost power. In this moment of crisis, Emperor Meiji locked a priceless Imperial secret in the Dragon Box. Only two people knew how to open the box—Meiji and the box’s sadistic constructor—and both died without telling a soul what was inside or how to open it.

    Every twelve years since then, in the Year of the Dragon, the Imperial family holds a clandestine contest to open the box. It is devilishly difficult, filled with tricks, booby traps, poisons, and mind-bending twists. Every puzzle master who has attempted to open it has died in the process.

    But Brink is not just any puzzle master. He may be the only person alive who can crack it. His determination is matched only by that of two sisters, descendants of an illustrious samurai clan, who will stop at nothing to claim the treasure.

    Brink’s quest launches him on a breakneck adventure across Japan, from the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to the pristine forests of Hakone to an ancient cave in Kyushu. In the process, he discovers the power of Meiji’s hidden treasure, and—more crucially—the true nature of his extraordinary talent.

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    39 分