A Preview Episode of All Things Murderful with Meredith
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This is a PREVIEW of a special series just for the Patreon Supporters ("Bookish Friends") of the Currently Reading Podcast who love mysteries and thrillers. It's called "All Things Murderful with Meredith".
Meredith had so much fun with this new thing that we wanted to share this first episode with everyone!
Today, Meredith is drinking HEB's Texas Pecan coffee and you can get one of Meredith's "Scary Books are My Jam" mugs here!
Books mentioned in this episode:
Something procedural (and a series!)
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves, first in the Shetland Island Series
Something creepy:
The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
A thriller I loved:
The Never List by Koethe Zan
An upcoming release I'm pre-ordering:
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, author of That Kind of Mother
Came out Oct 6th.
That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
This upcoming book recommended by @roxannatheplanner
A Listener Press:
From Ginny Walter IG: @ginnyreadsbooks
William Kent Krueger's Cork O'Connor series (the first of which is Iron Lake).
A TV or Movie with mystery or thriller vibes:
The Sommerdahl Murders on Acorn TV.
Also mentioned: Still Life movie on Acorn TV.
If you liked this episode and want more of All Things Murderful with Meredith, become a supporter at http://www.patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast
Contact the show at currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com.
You can find Meredith on Instagram @meredith.reads and Kaytee @notesonbookmarks.
You can visit our website at www.currentlyreadingpodcast.com.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Katie, you know I'm always so excited when we can create something new for our |
| 0:06.1 | listeners. |
| 0:07.1 | Seriously, Meredith, that's our favorite thing. |
| 0:09.8 | And we recently created a new segment for our Patreon supporters and it's called All Things Murderful with me, Meredith. |
| 0:17.0 | And we've been so super excited by how much response we've gotten. |
| 0:21.0 | Turns out we have a lot of listeners who really like mysteries and thrillers just like you do. |
| 0:26.0 | Yes, I honestly feel so understood. |
| 0:29.0 | The show, to be clear though, the show is just me, and it's me going through my decades of book journals |
| 0:35.9 | and pulling out some of my favorite, very, very backlist gyms, and they're all in the mystery |
| 0:42.3 | and thriller genres. Some true crime gets thrown in there too. |
| 0:45.8 | I'm pulling just the smartest mysteries, the most shocking thrillers, but ones that I still think are high quality, and the scariest, creepiest |
| 0:55.2 | books that I've ever read. |
| 0:56.5 | I really love it because I just get to go through and choose my favorites, none of the mediocre |
| 1:01.7 | stuff. |
| 1:03.8 | And then I tell everyone about a book that's coming out soon that I'm so excited about, I have ordered |
| 1:09.6 | it with my real cash money. |
| 1:12.2 | Every episode ends with a listener press and so these are mysteries, thrillers, and true crime favorites |
| 1:17.8 | from currently reading bookish friends. |
| 1:19.9 | And the thing is when I started getting this feedback from them, I was so excited because they've |
| 1:23.7 | come up with suggestions for all kinds of books in these genres that I have never heard of |
| 1:29.2 | before. And I frankly wasn't sure that was possible. |
| 1:33.8 | It's so fun. |
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