Hi, mystery fans! Joy Ride is finally available to stream on Starz, and if you like raunchy comedies, I laughed a lot!
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Bookish Goods
Mushroom Corner Postcard by thecleverclove
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New Releases
Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng
For fans of thrillers, psychological horror, and gorgeous covers!
Sweet Cadence was an all-girl pop group until one member, Mina, died by suicide. Years later, one of the past members, Candie, joins a K-pop workshop with the chance to train in Korea. Except another past member, Sunny, has different plans: infiltrate the workshop to find out what really happened to Mina…
For the Last Time by Heidi Perks
For fans of thrillers, dual timelines, and past secrets!
Maggie is a therapist whose sister has been missing for years. Erin is married to Will, and they’ve recently started marriage counseling with Maggie. When Erin mentions something related to Maggie’s missing sister, Maggie becomes obsessed with how Erin could possibly know that. Rather than recommending the couple to another therapist — per code of ethics — Maggie instead decides to find out what Erin knows and why…
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Riot Recommendations
Here are two books from this year that I haven’t gotten to yet — for no reason other than I am human, and there are more books than time in my life, which is just rude! — that I think I am going to greatly enjoy when I read them.
A Death in Denmark (Gabriel Præst #1) by Amulya Malladi (aoc)
Why I think I’m going to really enjoy it: Nordic crime, a jazz-loving PI, and Denmark history!
Gabriel Præst works as a PI after being fired from the Copenhagen police department, where he worked in financial fraud. Now, his ex-wife is asking him to prove the innocence of a man convicted of murdering a right-wing politician.
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman
Why I think I’m going to really enjoy it: these amateur sleuths are bored of high society life, there’s a bit of romance, and there are three adventure rescues!
Independently wealthy twin sisters Gus and Julia are respectively unmarried and widowed in Regency England. When they begin helping out a friend being blackmailed, the ladies find themselves rescuing other women who the law won’t help.
News and Roundups
Our critic’s picks: Best mystery fiction books of 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon to Arrive on Digital This Week
How Catalina Island’s past inspired Rachel Howzell Hall’s What Never Happened
Would You Survive? 8 Recent Dark Academia & Deadly Game Books
Tokyo Vice season 2 first look reveals new characters, new dangers
Netflix and Apple TV Plus will fight for crime show dominance in the new year, and I can’t wait
A theater critic and a hotel maid are on the case in 2 captivating mystery novels
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