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101

Witches vs. the Oligarchs: Kirsten Miller’s Women of Wild Hill

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NoirCon, Feminist Horror and Monstrous Men with Halley Sutton

103

Cate Holahan's The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold: Nepo Babies, True Crime Culture & Artificial Intelligence

104

Pelumi Olatinpo's Manifest Destiny: Being a Witness to Corroborate Experiences That Have Been Hidden

105

Spooky Season Book Recommendations with Gare & Steph

106

Vanessa Lillie's The Bone Thief: Stolen Bones, Stolen Land, and a Shady “Founders Society”

107

Lucinda Berry’s This is a Safe Space: Writing for Audio and Balancing Trauma and Twists

108

Music, Memoirs and Audiobooks with Erin Ashley

109

Nekesa Afia's As Long As You're Mine: Solving Mysteries in Old Hollywood

110

Sagit Schwartz's The Underdog: A Reality Singing Competition, An Obsessed Fan, and An Assistant Stuck in the Middle

111

Continuing Ed: The Mis-Education of Indigenous Children in America with MacKenzie Green

112

John Fugelsang's Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

113

Halley's Scandinavian Travels and Trip to a Haunted Mortuary, Kate's First Audiobook Production

114

Jennifer Fawcett's Keep This For Me: A Serial Killer, Generational Trauma and Motherhood

115

C.I Jerez's At The Island's Edge: Healing After Trauma, Family Bonds, and Second Chances

116

10 Before The End with Gare and Steph

117

Alma Katsu's Fiend: Family Wealth, a Family Curse, and Family Horror

118

Narrating and Producing My First Audiobook!

119

The Grave Artist by Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado: An Aesthetic Serial Killer, and an AI Investigator

120

Books on Our Fall TBRs with Gare and Steph

121

L. S. Stratton's In Deadly Company: Hollywood Hijinks, Bad Rich People and Dual Timelines

122

Learning From Fiction with Steph

123

Penny Zang's Doll Parts: Dark Academia, Sylvia Plath, and Complicated Female Friendship

124

Some of Our Favorite Reads from August with Gare and Steph

125

Rebecca McKanna's Don't Forget the Girl: Remembering the Victims, Female Friendship and True Crime Podcasts

126

Short, Bingey Books with Gare and Steph

127

Kaila Yu's Fetishized: Yellow Fever, Sexualization, Fetishization, Feminism & Beauty

128

Zoe B. Wallbrook's History Lessons: Dark Academia, Satirical Humor & Navigating Racial Tensions

129

A True Crime Chorus: The Vanishing of Ethel Cain | Gare's Love Letter to Ethel Cain

130

Leigh Dunlap's Bless Your Heart: Buckhead Betties, Racial Tensions and a Murder

131

Samantha Downing's Too Old For This: A Retired Serial Killer, A Nosy Journalist, And Tons of Mayhem

132

Memorable Characters with Steph

133

Cobie LaJeanne's Blood in the Cradle: Religious Trauma, Missing Children, and a Detective with Synesthesia

134

New Favorite Authors with Gare and Steph

135

Clèmence Michallon's Our Last Resort: Dual Timelines, Cult Memories and a Locked Resort Mystery

136

Melanie Anagnos' Nightswimming: Noir in 1970s New Jersey with Halley Sutton

137

Christina Dotson's Love You to Death: Wedding Crashing, Toxic Friendships and Racial Tension

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Writing Updates, A Way to Create Without Shame, Changes in the Publishing Industry, Capitalism vs Creativity, and Many Many More Topics with Halley Sutton

139

Cebo Campbell's Sky Full of Elephants: Exploring Black Identity in a World Without White People

140

Non-Thrillers Steph and I Have Loved

141

M.M. Deluca's The Divorce Party: A Toxic Friend Group, A Divorce Party, and A LOT of Secrets

142

ThrillerFest Recap with Sabrina Thatcher and Lori Brand

143

Kaira Rouda's Jill Is Not Happy: Jack and Jill Go on a Tense Road Trip

144

Blue and Yellow Cover Thrillers with Gare and Steph

145

Rob Hart's The Medusa Protocol: Assassins In Recovery and Bad Guys Mining Memories

146

Audiobooks Steph and I Love: Fiction, Non-Fiction and Memoirs

147

Kimberly G. Giarratano's Make a Killing: P.I.s in Competition and Business Conspiracies

148

It's So Gay And I Love It with Gare and Steph

149

Jennifer Oko's Just Emilia: Stuck in an Elevator with Three Versions of Yourself

150

Gare's Montreal Mystery Festival Recap and Our Mid-Year Favorite Reads with Gare and Steph

151

Allison Buccola's The Ascent: Cults, Murder and Postpartum Depression

152

Kristen L. Berry's We Don't Talk About Carol: 6 Missing Black Girls, Intergenerational Family Drama and Messy Motherhood

153

Problematic Artists, Body Image Wars, and The Intersection of Creativity and Commerce with Halley Sutton

154

Tori Eldridge's Kaua'i Storm: Family Drama, A Missing Persons Case, and A Setting That's Its Own Character

155

Bad Things Happening in Cul-De-Sacs with Brian Watson

156

Jaime Lynn Hendricks' Their Double Lives: What Would You Do to Save Your Dog?

157

Summer Thriller Releases We Are Excited for with Gare and Steph

158

Judy Huston's Spy Notes: The Music Business as the Perfect Cover for a Spy

159

Five Fave Authors and Books with Gare and Steph

160

Robert Bailey's The Boomerang: Hidden Cancer Cure, An Outspoken Land Baron and One Dedicated Father

161

The Role of Subconscious in Writing, Milling for Empathy, and Craft Tactics with Halley Sutton

162

Sinners Reactions and Analysis with MacKenzie Green

163

Liann Zhang's Julie Chan is Dead: Estranged Twins, Toxic Influencers and a Wild Trip

164

Books We Took a Chance on and Loved with Gare and Steph

165

Analyzing Agatha All Along with Halley Sutton SPOILERS

166

Pyschological Thrillers, Reality TV, and a Tornado with Marishka Lunde and Gare Billings

167

Saumya Dave's The Guilt Pill: Mom Guilt, Ambition and Maintaining Your Individuality

168

White Lotus Season Three Reactions with Halley

169

White Lotus Finale Predictions and Writing Catchup with Halley

170

Single POV Thrillers with Gare and Steph

171

Olesya Lyuzna's Glitter in the Dark: 1920s Harlem, Prohibition, Showgirls and Noir

172

Elizabeth Rose Quinn's Follow Me: A Thrilling Takedown of Mommy-Influencer Culture

173

More Kindle Unlimited Thrillers We Love

174

Emily Carpenter's Gothictown: Southern Hospitality Turns Out to Be Anything But Hospitable

175

Ashley Winstead's This Book Will Bury Me: A Roman à Clef About Processing Grief, and True Crime Obsessions

176

Marshall Karp's Don't Tell Me How to Die: A Family Saga, A Dying Woman Looking for Her Replacement, and A Wild Third Act

177

Books to Read if You Love White Lotus

178

Nick Kolakowski's Where The Bones Lie: Bodies in Barrels, An LA Fixer and Smugglers

179

Popcorn Thrillers We Love!

180

Keeping the Paint Wet: A New Writing Series with Halley Sutton (aka I said I would finish my book this year so I need to get on it)

181

Books We Wish We Could Erase From Our Memory And Read Again

182

Spring 2025 Thrillers We're Excited About

183

Books You Can Easily Escape Into with Gare and Steph

184

Dark Valentine Thrillers with Halley Sutton

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Heather Levy's This Violent Heart: Mystery, Romance, and Coming of Age

186

Thrillers with Romance with Gare Billings and Steph Lauer

187

Carter Wilson's Fast Paced Podcast Thriller Tell Me What You Did

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Going Bookwild in Manhattan with Jamie Hergott

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Jakob Kerr's Gritty Technothriller Dead Money

190

Our Next 3 TBR Picks with Gare Billings and Steph Lauer

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Recapping the 33 Movies We Saw in Theaters in 2024 Part Two

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Layne Fargo's The Favorites: Wuthering Heights Meets Figure Skating

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Mind Benders and Cold Cases with Gare Billings

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Recapping the 33 Movies We Saw in Theaters in 2024 Part One

195

More Backlist Thrillers We Want to Read with Gare Billings and Steph Lauer

196

The Ways I Went Bookwild in 2024

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2025 Books We Can't Wait to Read with Gare Billings and Halley Sutton

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Hyped Books Recommendations with Gare Billings and Steph Lauer

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Some of Our Favorite Subgenres with Gare Billings and Steph Lauer

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Sagit Schwartz's Broken Threads: Ageism in Publishing and Social Media, And the Writer's Battle Against AI