Episode 104: Otto Penzler and The Mysterious Bookshop

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

Episode 95: Good Mystery Podcast 2026 Reading List

Introducing our 2026 reading list! The best mysteries from 1943-1948! Check it out!

Episode 83: 2024 Retrospective (Mysteries, Thrillers & Detective Fiction)

Carolyn Daughters and Sarah Harrison discuss the history of mystery (1934-1939)!

Episode 82: Dead and Gondola (Christie Bookshop Mystery Series) – Ann Claire

Colorado author Ann Claire joins us to discuss her cozy mystery Dead and Gondola.

Episode 79: And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)

Special guest Ann Claire joins us to discuss And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

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!

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