Hello mystery fans! I’ve got mysteries for you in roundups, news, things to watch, and of course more books to add to the ever growing TBR list.
New Releases
Murder Is Revealing (Write Club Mysteries) by Michelle Corbier
If you’re looking for an amateur sleuth, like doctor leads and writer leads, here’s a new series. Dr. Myaisha Douglas’ goal to write a novel leads her to join a writing group, but the writing advice comes with a murder! As an armchair detective she decides she’s the best option to help assist the police in solving the case.
The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow, Liz Lawson
For fans of amateur teen sleuths and Agatha Christie (references to Poirot and Miss Marple and you even gets quotes between chapters), here’s a new YA murder mystery. This is one of those fun trope-y books. Alternating between the stories of Alice and Iris, who’ve been paired together for tutoring by the school, you get opposites that join together to solve a murder. Toss in a group of other kids that help with their hijinks in figuring out why the kid they think didn’t commit the murder just confessed, and why the murdered girl’s stepdad is acting so strange? If you like multiple narrators, pickup the audiobook format.
(TW domestic abuse/ drugging without consent/ stalking)
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Don’t forget you can get three free audiobooks at Audiobooks.com with a free trial!
Riot Recommendations
I’ve got two books that should appeal to mystery fans and horror fans—I read my horror in the summer in the sun, thank you very much.
Reprieve by James Han Mattson
For mystery fans: a court case, transcripts, build up to whodunnit and whydunnit murder case.
For horror fans: a full contact haunted escape room!
This is characte- driven in that you follow different people through the years leading up to how they were all inside this escape room, and how one came to be murdered. Between those chapters you follow four people as they try and finish the escape room in order to win a huge prize, and the court case and interrogation of what went so wrong that one of them is dead.
I inhaled this audiobook, getting invested in each person’s life while also being SUPER certain I would not enter a full-contact horror house ever for any reason. I’m always a fan of watching the pieces slowly come together to reveal the whole thing, and this has the bonus of also being a social horror.
(TW homophobia/ racism/ tells a fake horror story about a witch killing kids/ parent death/ brief mention of past sex worker attack)
White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig
For mystery fans: a whodunnit mystery being solved by an amatuer sleuth.
For horror fans: the body count!
Rufus has to help solve a murder to help his half-sister from going down for the killing. But it’s super complicated because she’s from the side of the family that pretends he doesn’t exist and he needs his ex-boyfriend’s help who he’s still in love with. Then there’s that pesky thing where people keep turning up dead…
If you’re looking for a fun horror-ish vibe YA mystery, pick this one up.
News & Roundups
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Michigan-Based ‘Renovated to Death’ Author Draws on Love of Old Houses for First Cozy Mystery Novel
Chris Bohjalian’s Novel ‘The Lioness’ To Be Adapted For TV By eOne
Inside Only Murders in the Building’s Mysterious, Meta Second Season
‘Jack Ryan’ To End With Season 4, Spinoff Headlined By Michael Peña Eyed By Amazon
7 Books That Deliver Unexpected Mystery
You can now watch the Spy X Family anime adaptation on Hulu if you don’t have crunchyroll!
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The Devotion of Suspect X on Rakuten Viki: For fans of watching the puzzle of the mystery get solved meticulously there’s the film adaptation of one of Keigo Higashino’s Detective Galileo novels, The Devotion of Suspect X. The series–each novel reads as a standalone I promise–always follows a crime, those affected by the crime, and the police, the latter who always need the help of the physics professor Manabu Yukawa (Detective Galileo). The Chinese film adaptation stars Wang Kai, Zhang Lu Yi, Ruby Lin, and Ye Zu Xin. You can watch the trailer here and learn about the Rakuten Viki app.
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I squealed SO loud when I saw that Ausma Zehanat Khan has a new detective series coming this fall: Blackwater Falls. I love her Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak detective series.
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