I am currently really enjoying the series
Book Lovers HB Pencil Set by Everythingcraftyuk
I’m one of those people who can’t ever have enough stationary, pens, pencils, and stickers — and I found these lovely. They’d also make a nice gift. ($13: pastel or bright color option)
New Releases
Sounds Like a Plan by Pamela Samuels Young, Dwayne Alexander SmithFor fans of PIs, dual POV, action, and romance! Mackenzie Cunningham and Jackson Jones are PIs in L.A. who are separately hired in a missing person case. After realizing this case is unsafe, and the other has also been hired, they decide to team up to figure out what exactly is happening. They might also put their different personalities and lives aside for some making out between trying to stay alive… |
There’s No Murder Like Show Murder by M.S. GreeneFor fans of cozy mysteries, murder mysteries, and theater! The community theater Eastbrook Playhouse is putting on Annie Get Your Gun (I saw it with Reba McEntire!), and they’ve brought in Broadway actors because they need to generate enough money to stop a developer. But one of the actors is really difficult and ends up being shot dead on stage. Now costume designer Tasha Weaver, who spent her teen years in the playhouse, throws herself into saving the playhouse by solving the murder — even if it means it’s one of the actors! |
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Riot Recommendations
Here are two wildly differently toned books with “family” in the title that revolve around a family and contain a murder mystery.
The Family Chao by Lan Samantha ChangThis is a family drama mashed with a murder mystery and a reimagining of a classic (The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky)! The story centers a Chinese restaurant in northern Wisconsin and the family Chao — three adult sons, mother Winnie who has joined a Buddhist home, and father Leo who is awful. When Leo is presumed murdered, all eyes in the town turn to the family — especially the three sons — as suspects… |
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham #1) by Benjamin StevensonFor fans of remote murder mysteries, fun asides, breaking the fourth wall, and the MC being a writer! Ernest Cunningham writes books about how to write mysteries, and he’s our narrator. He’s stuck at a family retreat and decides to explain how every single member of his family has killed someone at some point. All while there is a current murder mystery. Bonus: there is now a sequel with the murder-on-a-train trope (traveling in Australia): Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect. (TW recounts past child death, murder/ mentions past infertility issues/ mentions past maternal mortality/ mentions past child emotional abuse/ addiction/ suicide) |
News and Roundups
- Poker Face is Back! Season 2 of Rian Johnson & Natasha Lyonne’s Peacock Series Now Filming
- Readers’ Most Anticipated Books of July
- The ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Legacy Is More Problematic Than You Remember
- Actress Jennifer Esposito Talks Managing Chronic Health Issues, Her Directorial Debut and More
- ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Set to Become ‘Largest Production’ Ever Shot in Ireland
- James Patterson’s Cross Series Sets a Premiere Date — Find Out When It Will Stream!
- M. Night Shyamalan Says Inspiration for ‘Trap’ Was ‘Silence of the Lambs’ Meets Taylor Swift Concert
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