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Books Discussed

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly

Heartsick by Chelsea Cain

His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burne

The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

New Releases

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey

Currently Reading

Girl A by Abigail Dean

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro