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Robert Downey Jr., Greg Berlanti Team for HBO Max Drama FOR YOUR OWN GOOD

Hi mystery fans! It was a quiet week in the world of entertainment news so this week’s newsletter will feel light, but there’s still great things to click and fantastic Kindle reads!

From Book Riot And Around The Internet

7 Crime and Mystery Books By Latinx Authors

2 Recent Historical Mystery Series Starters

July Book-Ahead: What We’re Excited To Read Next Month

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

Elon Green Looks Beyond the ‘Last Call’ Killer

So excited! Robert Downey Jr., Greg Berlanti Team for HBO Max Drama ‘For Your Own Good’

Cover reveal for Deanna Raybourn’s 7th release in the Veronica Speedwell series: An Impossible Impostor (I love this series to bits!)

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo won the 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award!

12 LGBTQ+ Characters in Crime Fiction

Nadine Matheson Talks The Jigsaw Man

Apple TV+ lights a torch under City on Fire crime drama series

‘Bones’ writer Kathy Reichs answers your questions about her famed series

Heist is the wild new true crime docuseries we’ve all been waiting for

June’s Bookseller-Recommended Audiobooks

Giveaway: Enter to Win a Waterproof Kobo: Canada Only!

Kindle Deals

TWs can be found in review links.

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey

For readers of memoir mixed with true crime, this is Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey’s story, including the murder of her mother after her mother had left her second husband. You can pick it up for $2.99 right now. (Review)

A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas cover image

A Conspiracy in Belgravia (The Lady Sherlock Series Book 2) by Sherry Thomas

If you’ve yet to pick up the sequel in the fantastic Lady Sherlock series, you can now read it for $1.99! (Review)

The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe

If you’re looking for a thriller where a girl raised by a con-artist finds herself in a bank hostage situation, and those hostage takers are about to regret all their life’s decisions, RUN to this book. It’s currently $2.99! (Review)

The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams

And I leave you with a nonviolent true crime book that looks at the question: who exactly owns dinosaur bones? Currently $3.99. (Review)


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Until next time, keep investigating! In the meantime, come talk books with me on Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, and Litsy–you can find me under Jamie Canavés.

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