Episode 127 - Crime Fiction

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Crime Fiction! We discuss the Venn diagram of crime, mysteries, and thrillers, teenage girls punching robots, whether superhero comics count as crime fiction, teen sleuths, whodunnits, howdunnits, hughdunnits, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Wicked Things by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Whitney Cogar
  • Circus Windows by John Allison (webcomic)
• The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith
• The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts
• Criminal: Cruel Summer by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, andJacob Phillips
• Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
• Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Police procedurals Meghan didn’t talk about

• Flowers Over the Inferno by Ilaria Tuti
• The Killing by David Hewson
• Natural Causes by James Oswald
• Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
• Nightblind by Ragnar Jónasson

Other Media We Mentioned

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Wikipedia)
• The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by Jon Billman
• These Women by Ivy Pochoda
• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
• Into the Woods (Wikipedia)
• Sunday in the Park with George (Wikipedia)
• Duck Soup (1933 film) (Wikipedia)
• Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5: Super Famous by G. Willow Wilson and various artists (gentrification storyline)
• Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
• Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
• Criminal Minds (Wikipedia)
• Murder, She Wrote (Wikipedia)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (Wikipedia)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Wikipedia)
• Profiler (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Inspector Morse (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Lewis (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Murdoch Mysteries (Wikipedia)
• The Littlest Hobo (Wikipedia)
• Thursday Next Series by Jasper Fforde
• Giant Days, Vol. 1 by John Allison and Lissa Treiman
• Bad Machinery, vol. 1: The Case of the Team Spirit by John Allison
• Steeple, vol. 1 by John Allison
  • Steeple webcomic
• Rashomon (Wikipedia)
• Criminal (comics) (Wikipedia)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Links, Articles, and Things

• Readers' Advisory for Library Staff Facebook group
• Episode 033 - Legal Thrillers
• Dan Brown (Wikipedia)
• Stephen Sondheim (Wikipedia)
• Squirrel Girl (Wikipedia)
• Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) (Wikipedia)
• The Rhino (Wikipedia)
• Doctor Doom (Wikipedia)
• Desert Island Discworld
• Margaret Atwood's new work will remain unseen for a century
• Future Library project (Wikipedia)
• Episode 057 - Nordic/Scandinavian Noir
• Episode 110 - Comedic/Humorous Fiction
• Hark! Podcast
• Brubaker Discusses Creator-Owned Comics Love and Why He Doesn't Miss Superheroes
• Dimension 20: Mice & Murder Trailer
• 2021 Edgar Award Winners

18 Crime Fiction Novels by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Easy Motion Tourist by Leye Adenle
• The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei, translated by Jeremy Tiang
• Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
• If I Should Die by Grace F. Edwards
• Bad Men and Wicked Women by Eric Jerome Dickey
• The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen
• Malice by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith
• A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
• IQ by Joe Ide
• Out by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Stephen Snyder
• The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson
• Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
• The Long Fall by Walter Mosley
• Nairobi Heat by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
• Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
• Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon
• The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross
• Humane by Anna Marie Sewell

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It’s almost time for our annual “We all read the same book” episode. So on Tuesday, June 15th we’ll each suggest and talk about one title and you’ll get to vote for which one we’ll read.

Then on Tuesday, July 6th we’ll be reading Film/TV/Video/Movies non-fiction!