If you're listening to All the More Books, a weekly show about books of all kinds.

I'm your host, Vanessa Diaz.

This episode is airing on July 25th.

And I'm first going to just say that if my voice sounds froggy or squeaky or cuts

in and out, I am sorry, y'all. I'm getting over an awful summer cold. Summer colds are the worst kinds of colds. None of them are good, but you know, you at least want to be cozy and like wrapped up in a blanket when you don't feel good and the weather outside complies. When it's hot like I'm just sitting here sweating. It's not a good time, but no more of that. Who cares?

Just wanted to preface that in case, again, the voice gets a little froggy. What you're really here to hear about is books, and I have two fantastic ones for you this week. These are two mysteries by Latina authors. I think the last couple of times I've been on this show's rotation. I've talked about Latina authors, and that's not necessarily something I'll do every time. But what keeps happening is I sit down to write the Latina Lit newsletter and then I get excited about the books that I'm talking about there and go, ooh, I haven't talked about that in a while. Let me, where else can I talk about it? And then, ta-da, it gets over to you. But these are really fantastic books. I'm so happy to learn that I haven't talked about them yet. So I'm going to tell you about both of those.

One is for fans of true crime. to you. But these are really fantastic books. I'm so happy to learn that I haven't talked about them yet.

So I'm going to tell you about both of those. One is for fans of true crime. It's a fictional book about a mysterious woman who let a double life that ended in a murder. And the second is a foodie,

cozy mystery and the first in a series. So there's lots to catch up on if you like the first.

Before we get into both of those,

let's hear from our sponsor. Today's episode is sponsored by Harlequin, publishers of Let's

Give Them Pumpkin to Talk About by Isabel Pop. Textile artist Sadie Fox did not sign up for this.

When she agreed to come home to P Blossom, Indiana, it was to care for her

father's beloved pumpkin patch. The deal was that, just for the summer, she would grow a ginormous

pumpkin, win the Indiana State Fair's pumpkin contest, and finally went back her father's grudging

respect. Instead, a horde of wild hogs destroyed the entire patch, which is precisely when the annoyingly sexy,

sunshiny next-door neighbor shows up. Josh Thatcher is a tech millionaire who traded in the

office for growing gourds, including experimental squash hybrids. And for the life of her,

Sadie can't understand what he sees in her sweary, tattooed, prickly self, or why he's offering

to help his biggest

competitor. But a storm-fueled kiss proves there's something growing between them. Maybe it's

just an attraction, maybe it's more. Whatever it is, it's already bigger than Sadie's fast-growing

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