Episode 85: True Crime!

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593355336
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Published: Del Rey - July 19th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.


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All Hallows: A Novel By Christopher Golden Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250280299
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Published: St. Martin's Press - January 24th, 2023

New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden is best known for his supernatural thrillers set in deadly, distant locales...but in this suburban Halloween drama, Golden brings the horror home.


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A Restless Truth (The Last Binding #2) By Freya Marske Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250788917
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Published: Tordotcom - November 1st, 2022

"A breathtaking romp of a plot, prose as sparkling and luxuriant as a diamond sautoir, and at the heart of it all a sense of wondrous possibility."—The New York Times


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Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel By Julia Armfield Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250229892
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Published: Flatiron Books - July 12th, 2022

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, The Telegraph, Goodreads, Tor.com, them, and more)

“A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way…An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own relationships in a new light.” —NPR


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The Dead Romantics By Ashley Poston Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593336489
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Published: Berkley - June 28th, 2022

A New York Times Notable Book of 2022!

The New York Times Bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club Pick!


"I LOVED this book! ...Funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy.”—Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis


The Last House on Needless Street By Catriona Ward Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250812629
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Published: Tor Nightfire - September 28th, 2021

"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." —Stephen King

Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel!
A World Fantasy Award Finalist!
An Indie Next Pick! A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!


Lavender House: A Novel By Lev AC Rosen Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250834225
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Published: Forge Books - October 18th, 2022

A "Best Of" Book From: Amazon * Buzzfeed * Rainbow Reading * Library Journal * CrimeReads * BookPage * Book Riot * Autostraddle

A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist.


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New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support By Robin Marty, Amanda Palmer (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Robin Marty, Amanda Palmer (Foreword by)
$17.95
ISBN: 9781644210581
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Published: Seven Stories Press - March 30th, 2021

A completely new edition of Robin Marty's bestselling manual on what to do now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.


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Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World By Rob Sheffield Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062207661
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Published: Dey Street Books - June 19th, 2018

An NPR Best Book of the Year • Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism

“This is the best book about the Beatles ever written”  Mashable


Wayward: A Novel (Wanderers #2) By Chuck Wendig Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780593158777
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Published: Del Rey - November 15th, 2022

“If King had written a sequel to The Stand, it might look something like this monumental epic of a story.”—James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Kingdom of Bones


Nora Goes Off Script By Annabel Monaghan Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593420034
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - June 7th, 2022

"The perfect escape." —USA Today

"Readers who loved Emily Henry's Book Lovers are sure to savor Nora Goes Off Script." —Shelf Awareness


The Echo Wife By Sarah Gailey Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250174673
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Published: Tor Books - May 24th, 2022

Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly

I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married.


Don't Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM By Sarah Berman Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781586422752
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Published: Steerforth - April 20th, 2021

As seen in Season Two of the HBO docuseries THE VOW

They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more secretive those connections are, the more exclusive you feel. Little did you know, you just joined a cult.


Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession By Rachel Monroe Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781501188893
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Published: Scribner - July 7th, 2020

A “necessary and brilliant” (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) narratives of obsession.

In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe links four criminal roles—Detective, Victim, Defender, and Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obses


Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith By Jon Krakauer Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781400032808
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Published: Anchor - June 8th, 2004

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU.


In Cold Blood (Vintage International) By Truman Capote Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780679745587
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Published: Vintage - February 1st, 1994

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.


I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer By Michelle McNamara, Gillian Flynn (Introduction by), Patton Oswalt (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Michelle McNamara, Gillian Flynn (Introduction by), Patton Oswalt (Afterword by)
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062319791
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Published: Harper Perennial - February 26th, 2019

THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO® DOCUMENTARY SERIES

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:


Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three By Mara Leveritt Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780743417600
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Published: Atria Books - October 21st, 2003

*A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH*

The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted…and set free. Do you know their story?

In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison.


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Devil House: A Novel By John Darnielle Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780374212230
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Published: MCD - January 25th, 2022

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“It’s never quite the book you think it is. It’s better.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling.


The Girls: A Novel By Emma Cline Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812988024
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - May 9th, 2017

THE INSTANT BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong


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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper By Hallie Rubenhold Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780358299615
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Published: Mariner Books - March 3rd, 2020

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography

The award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the “Ripper” murders forever

Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met.


The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century By Kirk Wallace Johnson Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781101981634
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Published: Penguin Books - April 23rd, 2019

As heard on NPR's This American Life

“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air

“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor


American Animals: A True Crime Memoir By Eric Borsuk Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781684424504
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Published: Turner - March 31st, 2020

AS SEEN IN THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

"One of the most esoteric and far-fetched crimes in 21st-century annals."
--The Hollywood Reporter

"A rare book heist that Danny Ocean may have applauded--except for one mistake."
--Vanity Fair

"A tragicomedy of errors."
--Salon


Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup By John Carreyrou Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780525431992
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Published: Vintage - January 28th, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranosone of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist.


Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks By Patrick Radden Keefe Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780385548519
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Published: Doubleday - June 28th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing—and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue


If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood By Gregg Olsen Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781542005234
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Published: Thomas & Mercer - December 1st, 2019

A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen's shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother's house of horrors.


Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People By Tim Reiterman Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781585426782
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Published: TarcherPerigee - November 13th, 2008

The basis for the upcoming HBO miniseries and the "definitive account of the Jonestown massacre" (Rolling Stone) -- now available for the first time in paperback.

Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978.