Episode 73: 2025 Mystery Fiction Books

Get the scoop on all the amazing thrillers and mystery fiction books we’ll read in 2025!

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.

Hercule Poirot Books (Agatha Christie)

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

Mystery Book Club: 2023 Roundup

Wow, what a year. In 2023, our listener base grew by 223%, and we had the great fortune to read and discuss Murder on the Orient Express, The Maltese Falcon, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Thirty-Nine Steps, and the very first Perry Mason novel. Get the scoop on 2023 here!

Best Mystery Podcast 2024

The Tea, Tonic & Toxin book club and podcast is on FIRE. Our 2024 book club picks are live and kicking, and in this bonus episode we’d love to introduce all 12 of them to you. We’re reading mysteries published from 1934-1939. And we’ll have lots of guests and author interviews — BIG things on the horizon, folks!

Agatha Christie Poirot Books: Murder on the Orient Express

Emily Schwartz is back to discuss whodunit on the Orient Express. Could a reader new to the story identify the murderer before the very end? Is there even such a thing as a reader new to the story, or has everyone seen the film? And what did you think of Branagh’s version of the film?

Agatha Christie Books: Murder on the Orient Express

Playwright, artistic director, and Renaissance woman Emily Schwartz joins Sarah and Carolyn to dish all things Agatha Christie. On a completely (un)related note, Emily, Sarah, and Carolyn have boarded the Simplon-Orient Express train in search of adventure. Listen in. And stay tuned …

Agatha Christie Cookbook: Recipes for Murder by Karen Pierce

Sarah Harrison and Carolyn Daughters interview Recipes for Murder author Karen Pierce about all things Agatha Christie — her books, her life, the adaptations of her work. Let’s just say this amazing Christie superfan knows her stuff.

Recipes for Murder (Agatha Christie Recipes): Karen Pierce Interview

Sarah Harrison and Carolyn Daughters interview detective-fiction devotee, food lover, and Agatha Christie superfan Karen Pierce about her amazing new cookbook, Recipes for Murder. With 66 dishes from Christie’s novels, what’s not to love?

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

As Sir Walter Scott once wrote, “what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, most everyone’s lying about something – and one of those liars is both a blackmailer and a killer. Eli Milliman joins Sarah and Carolyn to hash it out!