Hello mystery fans! We’ve got another week light on entertainment news but I still found you great stuff to click for roundups and news and there’s stuff to watch and plenty of books to read below.

From Book Riot and Around The Internet

8 of the Best Non-Movie Adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Works

Writes About Murder, Does a Murder: Weird Bookish Stories Edition

Read or Dead: Nusrah reminisce about their favorite debuts by mystery authors.

It’s Ryan Gosling vs. Chris Evans in The Gray Man exclusive first look

See Ana De Armas As An Untraceable CIA Agent In First Look At Her New Movie

10 Books to Help You Get Over a Reading Slump

Don Winslow talks Shakespeare and Coppola, but not retirement, at Festival of Books

What’s in a Page: Sarah Pinborough previews her creepy new novel Insomnia

‘Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?’ Review: A Delightful New Detective Duo

9 Shows Like Bones to Watch If You Like Fun Procedurals

Classic Agatha Christie mystery, Edgar Allan Poe musical set to return to Vertigo stage in 2022-23 season

Giveaway: Canadian Readers: Win a Copy of WATCH OUT FOR HER by Samantha M. Bailey!

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Under the Banner of Heaven on Hulu: This miniseries is a murder mystery set in a Mormon community based on Jon Krakauer’s same titled true crime book. It’s a whodunnit and whydunnit murder mystery about the real life murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her infant daughter. The series added the fictional investigators Jeb Pyre and Bill Taba as a duo, Prye being Mormon and Taba not. The cast includes Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Denise Gough. And you can watch the trailer here.

Recent Interests That May Also Interest You + My Reading Life

Reading: Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor / Chef’s Kiss by Jarrett Melendez, Danica Brine, Hank Jones, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

Streaming: Barry S3 (HBO Max) / Julia (HBO Max) Bebe Neuwirth and David Hyde Pierce reunited and it feels so good.

Laughing: Ain’t y’all pets too?

Helping: House of Tulip

Upcoming: The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson (Sept 6, 2022) If standing ovations were a thing given to books consider me standing and clapping right now. This is a horror novel with massive appeal for mystery/thriller readers as we follow a true crime podcast trying to finally figure out what happened to an almost entirely murdered town after its first integrated prom. If you’re thinking that means its setting is historical, it is not. Segregated proms exists in the 21st century: schools get away with it because the proms aren’t hosted by the school but rather parents and/or students off campus. We follow the podcast, interviews from those who survived, and articles after the fact while also going back to 2014 to watch all the events that led up to the massacre and survivors to say “Maddy did it.” If you’re getting major Carrie vibes from the cover and summary I’d say this is a retelling that surpasses the original hands down.

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Until next time, keep investigating! In the meantime, come talk books with me on Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, and Litsy–you can find me under Jamie Canavés.

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