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The Ministry of Fear

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

Set in wartime London, The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene (1943) is a stunning blend of espionage and psychological mystery. The story follows an ordinary man caught up in Nazi intrigue, navigating a world where nothing is as it seems. The story’s moral complexity redefined the boundaries of the mystery genre.

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Episode 98: Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich

Episode 98: Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich

December 14, 2025

Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich (It Had to Be Murder), published in 1942, is an exceptional noir tale that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's film.

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Episode 97: CW Grafton (Mary Roberts Rinehart Mystery Contest Winner)

Episode 97: CW Grafton (Mary Roberts Rinehart Mystery Contest Winner)

November 24, 2025

Have you started The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope (1943) yet? Let's just say that Sue Grafton wasn't the only major talent in that family.

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Episode 96: The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope by CW Grafton

Episode 96: The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope by CW Grafton

November 9, 2025

The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope (1943) is a GREAT crime thriller by Sue Grafton's father, C.W. Grafton. Oh, and we love Gil Henry.

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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.

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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.

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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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