edgar award 2019 – The Inside Flap: A Weekly Book Podcast

An excellent conversation with author Kathleen Kent about her Edgar nominated book, The Dime! We also recommend: The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent, The Bonesetter by Laurence Dahners. and All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson. Audiobook of the week is Out by Natsuo Karino read by the beautiful Emily Woo Zeller.

In “Library Corner” Amy, inspired by Alma Katsu’s The Hunger, recommends a non-fiction book about the Donner Party and a few novels about the American West . She recommends: The Best Land Under Heaven by Michael Wallis, True Grit by Charles Portis, Doc by Mary Doria Russell, Canada by Richard Ford. We also talk a little bit about “Weird Westerns.”

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The highly engaging British crime fiction novelist William Shaw joins us this week from Brighton, England! We chat with him about his books, his earlier career as a journalist and we talk a little about refugees in both countries. Charles Dickens, who can’t resist a fellow Brit, also pops in for a chat with William.

Books recommended this week are: Salt Lane by William Shaw, Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb and The Captives by Debra Jo Immergut.

In “Library Corner” Amy recommends books set in Norway and other Scandinavian countries based on last week’s read of Derek B. Miller’s American By Day. She recommends: Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg, The Harry Hole detective series by Jo Nesbo, Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, and the long, 6 part autobiography of Karl Ove Knausgard called My Struggle.

Thank you to Rebel Mouthed Books for including us in her list of favorite book podcasts!

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