All the Backlist! January 19, 2024

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This week, Trisha brings you two books in the crime/mystery/heist genre about older women solving crimes and college students committing them. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 2024 is the tenth year of the Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons and diversify our TBRs. To get book recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. We’ll also keep you informed about other cool reading challenges, readathons, and more across the bookish internet. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with a community of passionate, like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. Visit bookriot.com/readharder to sign up. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:15.0	I'm your host for the week, Tricia Brown, and this is episode number 446.5.
0:20.0	Welcome to a New year, everybody.
0:23.8	I know, I get it.
0:24.6	I feel like we've kind of breached the part of the new year where the novelty has worn off
0:28.1	and people don't really want to hear it anymore.
0:30.0	And in a lot of places, things are very cold and dark. But my birthday was this week so I am still kind of in a new year mindset and I'm dragging all of you along with me.
0:40.0	But regardless of how you are feeling about the new year,
0:43.4	or whether your birthday is in January or July or October,
0:47.0	or whatever, you are still probably pro books
0:49.7	because otherwise it would be weird for you
0:51.5	to be listening to this podcast.
0:53.4	So let's talk about a couple of great books.
0:57.2	I went with a couple of mystery slash crime slash heisty reads today, because I thought both of these books are quick and compelling
1:05.8	reads. So in case you are trying to read a little more in 2024, these are books that would make
1:11.3	that goal easy.
1:13.0	We are going to talk about retired women solving crimes and college students committing crimes
1:19.0	after we take just a quick break.
1:22.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Flat Iron Books, publisher of holiday country by
1:28.0	India Treck.
1:30.0	Anna adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa.
1:34.7	The glaring waters, endless olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy to leave her idle life in California behind.
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