Tea, Tonic, and Toxin is a book club and podcast for mystery lovers. Each month, Sarah Harrison and Carolyn Daughters will discuss a game-changing mystery, detective story, or thriller, moving chronologically from the mid-19th century onward. It’s educational, thought provoking, and all kinds of fun!
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 has loved mysteries ever since she and her sister Michele started the highly successful 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, teaching persuasive writing and marketing courses, exploring new neighborhoods on foot and photographing street art, and boarding a plane early and often (47 states, 39 countries, and counting). She's coming for you, North Dakota.
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This detective novel introduces readers to a British mining engineer – Richard Hannay – who has just returned to London
Even though the name of this book is Trent’s Last Case, the novel is actually about the FIRST detective case
Long before he started writing his own detective stories, Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton was already a fan of the genre.
Searching for the best detective podcasts? We read 11 books in 2022, with 12 more coming in 2023! Listen in!
Baroness Orczy was a novelist I had never heard of until recently, although her tales featuring Lady Molly of Scotland
This haunting story by Arthur Conan Doyle was my first introduction to Sherlock Holmes – in the 1939 film version
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