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Katie and Rincey talk about mysteries books written by Native and Indigenous authors.

This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder JournalLast Woman Standing by Amy Gentry, As Long As We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Chaney

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Show Notes

Bluebird Bluebird sequel!

Sarah Michelle Gellar To Star In ‘Sometimes I Lie’ Limited Series From Ellen DeGeneres & Warner Bros TV

5 books about missing & murdered indigenous women in Canada

How Indigenous Writers are Elevating True Crime

Books Mentioned

Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon

Girl Gone Missing by Marcie Rendon

Deception on All Accounts by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe

That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away by Lorimer Shenher

Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellin

No Exit by Taylor Adams

The Nowhere Child by Christian White

The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton