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Homicide for the Holidays

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Katie and Rincey give some recommendations of books you can pick up during the holiday season to gift to the people in your life — or just get for yourself!

This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Eye for Eye by J.K. Franko and Black Rock Bay by Brianna Labuskes.

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Show Notes

Lady Gaga to Star in Ridley Scott’s Gucci Murder Movie

Sarah Michelle Gellar to Star in Sometimes I Lie

Controversy at the Shamus Awardsplus the response from the Crime Writers of Color organization

The final round of the Goodreads Choice Awards is not terrible!

Books Mentioned

The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka

Pennance by by Clare Ashton

Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal

The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

The Plotters by Un-Su Kim

Impossible Causes by Julie Mayhew

NVK by Temple Drake

Nine Elms by Robert Bryndza

Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh

Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

Before the Devil Fell by Neil Olson

The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz