S19 Ep19: Almost Surely Dead w/Amina Akhtar
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4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
In the days before her disappearance, Dunia Ahmed is a successful pharmacist living in New York. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, she’s coping with a broken engagement and the death of her mother. But then something happens that really shakes up her world: someone tries to murder her.
When her would-be killer winds up dead, Dunia figures the worst is over. But then there’s another attempt on her life…and another. And police suspect someone close to her may be the culprit. Dunia struggles to make sense of what’s happening. And as childhood superstitions seep into her reality, she becomes convinced that someone―or something―is truly after her. Author of Almost Surely Dead, Amina Akhtar joins TCT to talk about the book, her motivations behind the characters and story, why the supernatural and crime topics make such a delicious mix for a thriller, and the art of reaching out to real life rivals through your work!
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome in the best in True Crime Podcast, and this is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm excited for today's show folks. Here's the deal. When we first started True Crime Tuesday 11 years ago, I had to think about this. |
| 0:34.9 | 2013 is when we started True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:39.6 | We started it with this goal in mind. We started with the idea that we could take the supernatural and paranormal. |
| 0:44.6 | We could try to mix it with true crime and we could bring both aspects of Darkness Radio and True Crime Tuesday |
| 0:50.4 | and combine those and bring them to you. Unfortunately not every crime has a |
| 0:54.8 | supernatural prospect to it that we can bring them to the forefront. There's a book |
| 1:02.2 | that was brought to my attention though by a good friend of ours, Megan Beatty, |
| 1:07.0 | and who's a publicist who brings us excellent, excellent authors. |
| 1:15.1 | This author I'm bringing you today has, I think, probably the book of the year. |
| 1:20.0 | It's a short year already. |
| 1:22.0 | We're only in February, but this book is amazing. It's called |
| 1:28.2 | almost surely dead. And we're going to talk about it in depth. |
| 1:33.0 | And I want to bring her in right away today, |
| 1:36.0 | because we have a lot to talk about. |
| 1:38.0 | Amina Octar is a novelist and former fashion editor |
| 1:43.5 | her satirical first novel, |
| 1:45.0 | hashtag fashion victim, |
| 1:47.0 | drew critical acclaim. |
| 1:48.8 | Kismet, her second book was set in the stunning and creepy world of wellness, which for me being a diabetic, |
| 1:57.8 | wellness is creepy as it is. I'm just kidding, that's a wellness joke. |
| 2:02.3 | Octar has worked I'm just kidding that's a that's a wellness joke |
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