S20 Ep30: You Are Fatally Invited w/ Ande Pliego

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 153 minutes

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True Crime Tuesday presents: You Are Fatally Invited with Author, Ande Pliego

No crime writing retreat is complete without a murder...

A legendary author’s murder mystery writing retreat on his private island turns lethal when one of the writers is murdered in this twisty debut novel.
When renowned anonymous author J. R. Alastor hires former aspiring writer Mila del Angél to host a writing retreat at his private manor off the coast of Maine, she jumps at the chance—particularly since she has an ax to grind with one of the invitees. The guest list? Six thriller authors, all masters of deceit, misdirection, and mayhem.

Confess the crimes, survive the tropes.

Alastor and Mila have masterminded a week of games, trope-fueled riddles, and maybe a jump scare or two—the perfect cover for Mila to plot a murder of her own. But when a guest turns up dead—and it’s not the murder she planned—Mila finds herself trapped in a different narrative altogether.

One by one, you’ll lose your turn.

With a storm cutting off the island, and the body count rising, Mila must outwit a killer who knows literally every trick in the book.

Until only one of us remains…

On Today's TCT, Pip Drysdale joins us to talk about her beginnings, the inspiration for "The Close-Up", The psychology of human beings and the duality of personalities that go into this novel. and, the scenarios that lead to the shocking ending of "The Close-Up!"

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Learn more about Pip and her other works here: https://pipdrysdale.com/

PLUS DUMB CRIMES AND STUPID CRIMINALS W/JESSICA FREEBURG!

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0:00.0	Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting.
0:25.8	This is True Crime Tuesday.
0:26.8	I'm your host Tim Dix.
0:28.7	The name of the show is True Crime Tuesday.
0:31.2	But a lot of times, we delve into fiction.
0:35.7	And there's a reason for that, because there's a lot of good fiction out there, folks, a lot of good true crime fiction out there. In this case, exceptional true crime fiction. I have a book in front of me that I had the pleasure reading over the weekend that, let's just put it this way, it's exceptional. In fact, I would say it's probably,
0:54.6	you know, I've said on this program time and time again, I think I found the best book I found
0:59.5	all year. This one has to be the best book I found in the last five years, folks. It riveted me.
1:04.7	In fact, as I'm reading it, I'm thinking to myself, how does Hollywood make this into a movie? How does Hollywood make this into a blockbuster?
1:12.0	Because I can see this as I'm reading it being a blockbuster.
1:14.7	In fact, I can kind of see some of the actors that would be in this movie as I read it.
1:20.6	And I can see the way, I can see scenes, I can see how it develops, I can see some of the actors that may potentially play it.
1:28.0	But then I see how the actors should look in my mind.
1:31.0	In fact, our guest today has put this book together so well that it's going to keep you
1:38.2	on the edge of your seat the entire time.
1:41.4	And I can guarantee you as you read it you don't know the ending that's how
1:46.8	good this is you don't know the ending ladies and gentlemen the name of this book and we're going to
1:51.7	get into it right now is called you are fatally invited a novel our guest today is anti pleiego
1:56.8	and she has done the impossible she She stumped everybody. I guarantee it. And we're going to bring
2:05.6	her in here now to True Crime Tuesday because like I said, this book is absolutely genius. And I
2:13.1	will bring her in to explain what the plot of this is because even the plot itself is genius.
2:18.9	Let me tell you a little bit about Andy before we bring her in here.
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