Hello, mystery fans! I missed out on watching Veep when it began because I didn’t have HBO at the time, and then once The Onion started looking like real headlines, watching a satire on politics didn’t have the same appeal. But I was recently on an endless scroll looking for something to watch, and since I love Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her current podcast, Wiser Than Me, I just automatically hit play on Veep. I think I’m ten episodes in and have laughed A LOT. Also, please tell me someone punches Jonah!
Bookish Goods
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New Releases
A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock #8) by
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Peg and Rose Play the Ponies (Senior Sleuths Mystery #3) by Laurien BerensonFor fans of murder mysteries, odd couple pairings, and elderly crime solvers! Peg and Rose are sister-in-laws who have only recently started to try and get along. When Peg decides to travel to her farm in Kentucky for the sale of one of her colts, she surprisingly asks Rose to come along. So naturally, they end up having to solve a murder when one of the farm’s managers, Jim Grable, is murdered! |
Riot Recommendations
Here are two mysteries with “blood” in the title!
Bloody Monday, Vol. 1 by Ryō Ryūmon, Kōji Megumi (Illustrator)For fans of manga, hackers, high school student groups, and having to save a family member! In school, his fellow students know him as Takagi Fujimaru, but his secret identity is Falcon, a genius hacker. After his father is accused of murder, Takagi decides to put his skills to use to prove he’s been framed. But it turns out his father is working for a secret government organization, and Takagi is about to discover that Tokyo is under a massive threat. |
Death in Bloodhound Red (Jo Beth Sidden “Bloodhound” Mystery #1) by Virginia LanierFor fans of bloodhounds, search and rescue, the heroine having to prove their innocence, and action and adventure! Jo Beth Sidden is a bloodhound trainer in Georgia on the border of the Okefenokee Swamp, where she helps find missing persons. After helping friends entangled in a crime, Jo Beth’s abusive ex-husband is beaten almost to death. But Jo Beth can’t provide the alibi she needs to prove she didn’t do it because it would put her friends in danger and incriminate them all. |
News and Roundups
- The Stacks: Ep. 324 The Psychology of Evil with Akwaeke Emezi
- Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to Star in Crime Thriller ‘RIP’
- Amazon Exec Says True Crime Is a “Home Run” in Latin America, Comedies Prove Difficult to Navigate
- Audible’s Top Audiobooks of 2024 So Far
- Cover reveal for The Assassin’s Guide to Babysitting
- DeSantis OKs $20 million to go to victims at Dozier, Okeechobee boys schools–The Nickle Boys, The Reformatory, and We Carry Their Bones are based on the horrors that happened at the Dozier School.
- Patrick Dempsey Joins ‘Dexter’ Prequel ‘Original Sin’
- Shenandoah hiker murder case solved after deaths of 2 women in 1996
- They Came For The School Library. Now They’re At The Public Library in Escambia County, Florida
- Midwest Tape/hoopla “Clarifies” Their New Ratings System
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