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This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations this is episode 11 and we're recording on tuesday january 18th tuesday january 19th is the date

i'm amanda nelson and i'm here with jenn northington and we are coming to you from bookriott

com welcome what's up it cold. It is so cold. It is ice cold, in fact. We're supposed to get eight inches of snow this weekend. I, some, my sister-in-law said it was supposed to be like 24 and I was like, that's not real. That's dumb. That's dumb. That's stupid. But then my weather app says

three to five, so who knows? Every time I complain about how cold it is, people on Twitter

who live in like Maine and Vermont start sending me screenshots of their thermometers. I'm like,

look, I understand. But I live in the South, right? But I live Yeah. Yeah. I have nothing to complain about. It's New York. Like, what are you going to do? That's true. I like winter. I just like being inside for the whole of it. Anyway. Yes. So for those of you who are new, we don't know how this podcast works. This is a personalized reading rec show. So you write in your reading recommendation requests or questions and we will answer them on the show. So if you're looking for a book recommendation for you or a friend or a family member or for your book club, it doesn't matter. You can send it on in. You can email it to us at get booked at bookriot.com or you can go onto book riot onto the website

to the get booked section and at the bottom of every post there's a form where you can drop

your question in or you can just send it to me on Twitter because I save those so let's just jump

in yo let's do it all right question one this is from Susan my husband loves hard-boiled

detective books some of his favorites include Richard Stark and Lawrence Block.

He also enjoys Ken Bruin, James Lee Burke, Ed McBain, and Robert B. Parker, along with some of the more popular authors.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

All right, Jen, you go first here.

All right, I also love me some hard-boiled detective books.

And recently, I found one in a used bookstore that I'd

never seen or heard of before and just fell in love. The title is Hex. It's by Maggie Estep.

And the premise is that the main character, Ruby Murphy, kind of does fit the, like, hard-boiled

PI profile, except she's not a PI. Like she's a recovering

alcoholic. She works in a Coney Island museum and like lives above a furniture store. And her

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