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Katie and Rincey talk about lots of new award nominees that have been announced and pick out books featuring LGBTQ+ characters for Pride Month! This episode is sponsored by Hey YA, Don’t Make a Sound by T.R. Ragan and One Last Lie by Paul Doiron. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more mystery/thriller recs and news, sign up for our Unusual Suspects newsletter!

Show Notes

Rachel Howzell Hall has a new crime novel coming out! Harlem mystery author Grace Edwards has died at age 87 The trailer for You Should Have Left CWA Dagger Award longlists The Shirley Jackson Award shortlist Anthony Award shortlist Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer has been nominated for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Prize

Books Mentioned

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling Stolen Things by R.H. Herron The Kill Club by Wendy Heard Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht Deep as Death by Katja Ivar The Swap by Robyn Harding The Mountains Wild by Sarah Stewart Taylor