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The Wheel Spins

Tea, Tonic & Toxin is a history of mystery book club and podcast. We’re reading the best mysteries ever written, as well as interviewing some of the world’s best contemporary mystery and thriller writers.

In The Wheel Spins (1938), a young woman’s train journey takes a sinister turn when a fellow passenger mysteriously disappears. Ethel Lina White’s suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat read served as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic film The Lady Vanishes. It’s a classic of the genre.

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Midnight at the Barclay Hotel by Colorado Author Fleur Bradley

Midnight at the Barclay Hotel by Colorado Author Fleur Bradley

Fleur Bradley is a fabulous Netherlands-born Colorado author who wrote the middle-grade mystery Midnight at the Barclay Hotel. Readers of all ages will enjoy it (adults, too!). She joined us in studio to discuss mysteries kids will love!

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Kemper Donovan's Agatha Christie Podcast and The Busy Body

Kemper Donovan's Agatha Christie Podcast and The Busy Body

Kemper Donovan is the host of the All About Agatha podcast AND he’s also an author himself. That’s right, folks, you’re going to love his novel The Busy Body. It’s a witty literary mystery and a joy to read, and he makes a wonderful guest.

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Hercule Poirot Books: The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot Books: The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie

The A.B.C. Murders is confounding and delightful and full of twists. Agatha Christie is in fine form, and Kemper Donovan joins us to talk all things Agatha. Oh, and Carolyn and Sarah are at Ucross Foundation in Ucross, Wyoming, pop. 26!

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ABOUT TEA, TONIC & TOXIN

Tea, Tonic, and Toxin is a book club and podcast for people who love mysteries, thrillers, introspection, and good conversation. Your hosts, Carolyn Daughters and Sarah Harrison, are discussing game-changing mysteries, starting with Edgar Allan Poe onward. Together, we’ll watch the genre evolved.

Along the way, we’ll entertain ideas, prospects, theories, doubts, grudges, fabulous guests, and interviews with talented, contemporary mystery authors. Together, we’ll experience the joys of reading the best mysteries and thrillers ever written.

Tea, Tonic, and Toxin Book Club and Podcast - Mysteries and Thrillers

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TEA, TONIC & TOXIN HOSTS

Sarah Harrison - Host of Tea Tonic and Toxin (Mystery and Thriller Podcast and Book Club)

SARAH HARRISON

Sarah loves getting to the bottom of any mystery having to do with life, love, work, play, personality, or process dysfunction. A scientist obsessed with reading fiction, she launched PORN (People Obsessed with Reading Novels -- get your mind out of the gutter!) while in grad school. After nine years, it was time for her book club to transmogrify into the podcast before you, sending its tendrils out to find you, friend. When she isn't hanging with her husband and two kids or running her business, Grace Sigma, she's taking a deep dive into the history, art, and architecture of this dark genre.

Carolyn Daughters - Hot of Tea Tonic and Toxin (Mystery and Thriller Podcast and Book Club))

CAROLYN DAUGHTERS

Carolyn has loved mysteries ever since she and her sister Michele started the CarMich Detective Agency when they were kids. Though she has never solved a crime, she is an excellent detective. When she isn't trying to convince people she's an excellent detective, she's busy running her company, CarolynDaughters.com, serving as a fractional chief marketing officer for small businesses, teaching persuasive writing courses, exploring new neighborhoods on foot, photographing street art, and boarding planes early and often (47 states, 42 countries, and counting). She's coming for you, North Dakota and Bhutan.

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