Read or Dead Book Riot

Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss mysteries and thrillers nominated for the 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Awards!
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News
Edgar Awards Preview

Books Discussed
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto
All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders - John Glatt
Murder By Degrees - Ritu Mukerji
One of Us Knows - Alyssa Cole 
Butter - Asako Yuzuki, trans. Polly Barton 
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss some books with a perfect sense of humor!
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News
Netflix is planning to adapt Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series 
50 Cent is publishing a financial heist novel, which is not a sentence I ever expected to write
The 2024 ITW Thriller Award finalists have been announced

Things Mentioned
Pango Books

Books Discussed
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone - Benjamin Stevenson
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto
Ghost Squad - Claribel A. Ortega
The Screaming Staircase - Jonathan Stroud
Cold to the Touch - Kerri Hakoda
A Better World - Sarah Langan

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Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss European mysteries and thrillers!
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THINGS MENTIONED
Trans Rights Readathon March 22 - 29, 2024
BOOKS DISCUSSED
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Perfectly Nice Neighbors - Kia Abdullah
Beneath the Mountain - Luca D’Andrea, translated from Italian Howard Curtis
The Jigsaw Man - Nadine Matheson
Quicksand - Malin Persson Giolito, transl. from Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles
The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo
The Mystery Writer - Sulari Gentil
If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com.
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss some of their underrated favorites!
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NEWS
Audie Awards
Carol Shields Prize
Women’s Prize for Fiction
Rincey’s TikTok

BOOKS DISCUSSED
Her Name is Knight - Yasmin Angoe
Mother, Mother - Koren Zailckas
Shelter - Jung Yun
House of Cotton - Monica Brashears
Murder Road - Simone St. James
Finding Sophie - Imram Mahmood

If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com.
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books that feature super cold settings!
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2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up.
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NEWS
Attica Locke shared that the third book in her Darren Matthews trilogy will be coming out this year!
2024 Agatha Award Nominees

BOOKS DISCUSSED
City Under One Roof - Iris Yamashita
You Will Never Be Found - Tove Alsterdal
Village In the Dark - Iris Yamashita
The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
Island Witch - Amanda Jayatissa
The Bad Ones - Melissa Albert 
If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com.
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Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady
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Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss books with threatening titles!
Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.
To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter!
2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up.
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NEWS
Edgar Award Nominees 
What the heck is going on with JD Barker??

BOOKS DISCUSSED
Bunny - Mona Awad
Nothing Gold Can Stay - Ron Rash
Never Saw Me Coming - Vera Kurian
See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmidt
Goodbye Earl - Leesa Cross-Smith
For Your Own Good - Samantha Downing
Village In the Dark - Iris Yamashita
The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
If you want to send an email with feedback or show suggestions, you can reach us at readordead@bookriot.com.
Otherwise you can:
Find Kendra on Instagram and Twitter @kdwinchester
Find Katie on Twitter @kt_librarylady
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