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The Thrill of Days Past: 8 Historical Suspense Novels

Liberty and Vanessa chat new book releases including Gone for Good by Joanna Schaffhausen on the latest All The Books!

9 Mysteries With Environment and Conservation Themes

What Murder Mysteries Get Wrong About Forensic Sciences

Bouchercon New Orleans 2021 Cancelled Due to Covid Concerns

11 Novels You Should Read This August

Let’s Talk Murder Books: Women in Crime Fiction Panel

Love to see it! Jenna Bush Hager picks first mystery novel for Read With Jenna book club

Agora Books signs six unpublished manuscripts from Henrietta Hamilton

Why Did It Take So Long For A New Murder, She Baked To Get Made? Hannah Swensen Actress Alison Sweeney Explains

Crime Writers of Color podcast: Tracy Clark–Cass Raines, Chicago and Oh That Snap!

Exclusive: Jodie Comer on Killing Eve’s “bittersweet” ending

The final season of Lucifer premieres September 10

John Lithgow is the latest addition to Killers Of The Flower Moon

The Mapleworth Murders coming to Roku Channel

The Best True Crime Documentaries Streaming on Amazon Prime, Hulu, and HBO Max

Horowitz becomes Japan’s most-decorated foreign crime author

Giveaway: Win a Pair of AirPods Pro!

Giveaway: Enter to Win a $250 Gift Card to Barnes and Noble: August, 2021

Watch Now

Gone For Good on Netflix: A new French series based on Harlan Coben’s standalone crime novel of the same name. NOT to be confused by Joanna Schaffhausen’s new (and excellent) crime novel ALSO titled Gone for Good. Okay, so Coben’s adaptation on Netflix is about Guillaume Lucchesi who years ago had his brother and first love die. Now his girlfriend is missing… Watch the trailer.

Recent interests that may also interest you + my reading life

Reading: A Will to Kill by R.V. Raman; These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall; Miss Moriarty, I Presume? (Lady Sherlock, #6) by Sherry Thomas
Streaming: Making the Cut S2 (Heidi Klum + Tim Gunn) on Prime Video
Laughing: I randomly think about this and burst out laughing.
Helping: No Off Years
Upcoming: “Pushing Daisies meets Dexter” GIVE ME NOW: Magic, Lies, and Murder Pies by Misha Popp

Kindle Deals

In the Dog House (Dog Club Mystery #1) by V.M. Burns

Start a cozy mystery ($3.99!) with dog lovers (no talking pooches) that has four more books in the series to marathon for some pup loving comfort. (Review)

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper

For readers of true crime and memoir, here’s one about a forty year old murder mystery that had become a “rumor” and the Harvard undergrad that heard about it and decided to investigate how a past student’s murder had gone so long unsolved–on sale for $3.99. (Review)

Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre

A nonfiction biography that reads like a spy novel for $3.99! (Review)

Browse all the books recommended in Unusual Suspects previous newsletters on this shelf. See upcoming 2021 releases. Check out this Unusual Suspects Pinterest board and get Tailored Book Recommendations!

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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