Whales Can Have Bad Breath

Katie and Rincey give readalikes for some of the best selling mystery writers like James Patterson, Louise Penny and more!

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Mystery/Thriller Giveaway, All That’s Dead by Stuart MacBride and The Stranger Inside by Lisa Unger.

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Show Notes

The 2019 National Book Awards

A look at the memoir, Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne

Contest challenges readers to solve a murder mystery by putting 100 jumbled pages of a vintage crime book in the right order

Books Mentioned

The Midnight Witness by Sara Blaedel

IQ by Joe Ide 

August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones

Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

In the Woods by Tana French

Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Gailbraith

Confessions of an Innocent Man by David R. Dow

Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld

The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, A Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice by Vanessa Brown

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

Heaven My Home by Attica Locke

Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly

Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough

Speaking of Summer by Kalisha Buckhanon