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The Worst Bestsellers

Episode 208 – Wish You Were Here

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.5609 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown.

Duarte’s been asking us for more feline representation, so we were joined by Phillip Mottaz, author of the Psychic Barber Mystery series, to read the first Mrs. Murphy mystery, Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. It’s a small town cozy mystery solved by a postmistress and her pets. Unfortunately, the pets have weirdly regressive attitudes. Turn the volume up on this episode to make sure you can hear it over all the almonds being blended!

Readers advisoryHere.

Footnotes: Rita Mae Brown’s Wikipedia page

Coming up next: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about a small town postmistress who violates the federal mail code in order to solve murder so you don't have to.

0:18.5

I'm Kate.

0:19.8

And I'm Renata.

0:21.3

And for this episode, we read A Wish You Were Here by Rita May Brown and also Sneaky Pie

0:26.9

Brown.

0:27.5

Yeah, how dare you?

0:28.8

We'll think about sneaky pie's contributions.

0:33.0

Joining us to discuss this cozy cat and dog mystery is mystery author and heir to the small town concrete fortune, Philip Modis.

0:43.3

Hello.

0:44.6

Hi, Philip.

0:45.5

Welcome back.

0:46.5

Thanks for having me back.

0:48.1

Even after surviving, talking about Frank Miller, you're like, give him another shot.

0:53.7

That's why I appreciate it.

0:57.2

Yes, Philip was here for our controversial episode about the Dark Night Returns.

1:03.5

Yeah, so many hotcakes and all, it's going viral in all those hashtags.

1:10.5

And so now for something completely different, we have read a cozy pet mystery that is

1:16.8

truly wild, truly I feel as if we could spend, we could become like a podcast where we

1:25.0

just do an episode about every chapter of this book. Like I think we could do like 40 episodes about this book. Yes. And then an additional episode just about Rita May Brown's Wikipedia page. Oh my God. Yes. That's true. That's for your, uh, your patrons. Yeah. That one you're going to bring for the patrons. But yeah, we dedicate ourselves to, it's like 50,

1:44.8

chap. I mean, that's a year of work if we really put it in. So this is our sneaky pilot episode

1:54.1

for that. If this does well. Our sneaky pie pilot. Niki pie pilot.

2:02.6

So before we get too deep into this,

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