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Katie and Rincey do a quick round up of some adaptation news before jumping into your holiday recommendations!

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal and Penguin Random House Audio.

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Show Notes

Starz Acquires Crime Drama ‘Dublin Murders’

Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories Lands JoAnn Chaney Thriller Novel ‘As Long As We Both Shall Live’

Eric Bana is starring as Aaron Falk in the adaptation of The Dry.

HBO orders an adaptation of Stephen King’s recent novel The Outsider

Goodreads Choice Awards

Books Mentioned

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan

Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles by A.L. Herbert

Aunty Lee’s Delights by Olvidia Yu

The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey

Hollywood Homicide – Kellye Garrett

Infomocracy by Malka Older

Futureland by Walter Mosley

Dark Net by Benjamin Percy

The Feed by Nick Clark Windo

Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver

Blood Defense by Marcia Clark

The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye

The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth

The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang

#fashionvictim by Amina Aktar

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke