Confidence Tricksters

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This week Alice and Kim talk about bookish murders, confidence tricksters, Craigslist cons and more new nonfiction.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders.

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Follow Up

Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman

Kidlit These Days, a new podcast from Book Riot

New Books

Murder by the Book by Claire Harman

No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny

Death in Ten Minutes by Fern Riddell

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé by Bryan Wagner

Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

Confidence Tricksters

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Eatwell

The Big Con by David Maurer

Race Me In a Lobster Suit by Kelly Mahon

Caraboo: The Servant Girl Princess by Jennifer Raison

The Mark Inside by Amy Reading

Reading Now

Lead from the Outside by Stacey Abrams

Alexander Hamilton by Jonathan Hennessey, art by Justin Greenwood

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule