Episode 74: Rebecca Book (Daphne du Maurier)

Special guest Shana Kelly joins us to discuss Daphne du Maurier’s thrilling 1938 masterpiece.

Episode 73: 2025 Mystery Fiction Books

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

Episode 72: Rebecca and Manderley

Special guest Shana Kelly joins us to discuss Daphne du Maurier’s thrilling 1938 masterpiece.

Carter Wilson – The Father She Went to Find

Carter Wilson is the USA Today bestselling author of nine standalone psychological thrillers. He’s an ITV Thriller Award finalist and five-time Colorado Book Award winner. We met with him and his cat, MacGuffin, at his home in Colorado to discuss his latest book, The Father She Went to Find.

Malice Aforethought: Best Crime Novels

Sarah, Carolyn, and guest Nate Harrison find Dr. Edmund Bickleigh entertaining, confusing, and terrifying. He has an inferiority complex with a big, whopping side of superiority. I guess everyone has truths that they hide from the world. What are we each hiding? And why?

Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles

Nate Harrison joins Sarah and Carolyn to discuss superman complexes, people who murder their spouses, and reasons why no one should ever eat a potted meat sandwich. Malice Aforethought ranks #16 in the Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time (Crime Writers’ Association). It’s worth a go!

Father Brown Stories

Our fabulous guest Deb Donner is back to discuss the stories in The Innocence of Father Brown. (By now, you surely have a copy of the book, right?) Father Brown solves mysteries by looking into men’s and women’s hearts and souls. We’re talking human nature, folks. It’s some heady, thought-provoking stuff.

Father Brown Mysteries

Sarah and Carolyn discuss this AMAZING collection of Father Brown mysteries with their first Tea, Tonic & Toxin podcast guest, Deb Donner! Deb is wise, insightful, and patient. She didn’t complain once during the ~14 hours it took Sarah and Carolyn to get their act together. Way to go, Deb!

Woman in White Podcast

Sarah and Carolyn debate whether Wilkie Collins’ 1860 thriller The Woman in White is a sensation novel or detective story … or both. See, we’re playing both sides here, because books can be many things. And because Carolyn’s annoyed by Hartright and Sarah’s annoyed by all of the women characters. Or something along those lines.

Ode to Marian Halcombe

Sarah and Carolyn discuss Wilkie Collins’ masterpiece. And by masterpiece, Carolyn means The Woman in White. Though Sarah might argue his masterpiece is The Moonstone. Thing is, The Moonstone doesn’t have Marian Halcombe in it. Or Count Fosco, for that matter. If you’re picking up what I’m putting down, then you’re on Team Carolyn.