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Home Sweet Homicide

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

HOME SWEET HOMICIDE (1944) by Craig Rice is a classic in the mystery genre that features three resourceful siblings determined to solve a neighborhood murder. Rice’s sharp wit and unique approach to the detective genre earned her widespread acclaim, including a rare Time Magazine cover, solidifying her legacy as one of the most distinctive voices in mystery fiction.

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Episode 104: Otto Penzler and The Mysterious Bookshop

Episode 104: Otto Penzler and The Mysterious Bookshop

April 10, 2026

Joining us to discuss the Golden Age of Mystery is the wonderful Otto Penzler (The Mysterious Press and The Mysterious Bookshop).

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Episode 103: Wartime Stories: Green for Danger by Christianna Brand

Episode 103: Wartime Stories: Green for Danger by Christianna Brand

February 23, 2026

GREEN FOR DANGER (1944) by Christianna Brand is a wonderful wartime mystery with a Golden Age bent. Guest Sergio Angelini joins us!

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Episode 102: Green for Danger by Christianna Brand

Episode 102: Green for Danger by Christianna Brand

February 1, 2026

GREEN FOR DANGER (1944) by Christianna Brand is set in a British hospital during the Blitz. It's a standout among Golden Age mysteries.

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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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