Brook and Sarah are joined by Ande Pliego to discuss suspense, Christie, and tropes.

Discussed and mentioned

You Are Fatally Invited (2025) Ande Pliego

The Library After Dark (2026) Ande Pliego

And Then There Were None (1939) Agatha Christie

Spells for Forgetting (2022) Adrienne Young

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Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None is one of the most read books of all time. In this episode, Brook and Sarah discuss why it continues to be a favourite and the tropes that it features.

Discussed and mentioned

And Then There Were None (1939) Agatha Christie

One by One (2020) Ruth Ware

The Sanatorium (2021) Sarah Pearse

The Invisible Host (1930) Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning

Among Us (2018) Innersloth

The Decagon House Murders (2015 translation of 1987 original) Yukito Ayatsuji

Daisy Darker (2022) Alice Feeney

In the Dark (2019) Loreth Anne White

The Guest List (2020) Lucy Foley

Murder Mystery Roblox

Clue boardgame

You Are Fatally Invited (2025) Ande Pliego

The Library After Dark (2026) Ande Pliego

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Hercule Poirot is Agatha Christie's most famous sleuth, and the last one in Brook and Sarah's series exploring her characters. In this episode they discuss his origins and why he continues to be popular.

Discussed and mentioned

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) Agatha Christie

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975) Agatha Christie

At the Villa Rose (1910) A. E. W. Mason

Hickory Dickory Dock (1955) Agatha Christie

The Big Four (1927) Agatha Christie

Alibi (1928) Michael Morton

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989-2013) ITV Television Series

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Agatha Christie Characters: Hastings (released March 11, 2025)

Agatha’s Characters: Ariadne Oliver (released November 12, 2024)

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Brook and Sarah discuss why reading, and reading mysteries in particular, is good for you.

Discussed and mentioned

Sam Goldstein, "Why We Love a Good Mystery" (14 March 2025) Psychology Today

Everybody Loves Raymond (American TV Sitcom 1996-2005)

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In today's episode, Brook and Sarah discuss how a mystery is typically structured and what happens when a mystery takes a different approach.

Discussed and mentioned

His & Hers (2025) Netflix-based on the book (2020) by Alice Feeney

Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996) CBS

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In today's episode, Brook and Sarah discuss the difference between mysteries on screen resolved in a single episode and ones that take multiple episodes to resolve.

Discussed and mentioned

The Woman in Suite 11 (2025) Ruth Ware

Telecrime (1938-39 and 1946) BBC

Agatha Christie's Marple (2004-2013) ITV

Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989-2013) ITV

Knives Out (2019) Netflix

Thursday Murder Club (2025 film) Netflix

Gone Girl (2014 film) 20th Century Fox

Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996) CBS

Law & Order (1990-2010; 2021-present) NBC

Father Brown (2013-present) BBC

Poker Face (2023-2025) Peacock

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2024) Netflix

Department Q (2025) Netflix

The Lincoln Lawyer (2022 to present) Netflix

The Lincoln Lawyer (2011 film)

Bosch (2014-2021) Amazon Prime Video

The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016) Ruth Ware

The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025 film) Netflix

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WWYD: The Woman in Suite 11 (released October 21, 2025)

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Murder, She Wrote at 40 Years (released October 8, 2024)

A Good Girl's Guide To Murder Watch Along (released August 16, 2024)

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This is a re-release of an episode that originally aired May 3, 2022.

In this episode, Brook and Sarah discuss Anna Katharine Green, whose writing inspired Agatha Christie. Green’s 1878 novel, The Leavenworth Case, is one of the first to include a detailed coroner’s inquest and ballistic evidence and set the stage for generations of future mystery authors.

Discussed and mentioned

The Leavenworth Case (1878) Anna Katharine Green
A Strange Disappearance (1880) Anna Katharine Green
“The House in the Mist,” (1905) Anna Katharine Green
Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists. (2000). Martha Hailey DuBose, St. Martins Press.

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This is a re-release of an episode that originally aired May 16, 2023.

Brook and Sarah continue their exploration of G.K. Chesterton this week. They discuss his mysteries featuring Father Brown and the legacies of this ecclesiastical sleuth.

Discussed

The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) G.K. Chesterton

Father Brown Mysteries (2013-present) BBC

Sister Boniface Mysteries (2022-present) BBC

Father Dowling Mysteries (1987-1991) NBC, ABC

Radio adaptations of Father Brown

Chesterton’s work on Project Gutenberg

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This is a re-release of an episode that originally aired May 9, 2023.

This week, in the first of two episodes about G.K. Chesterton, Brook and Sarah look at his life and find out why he was such a fascinating man and the influence he had on literature and life in the early 20th century.

Discussed

Orthodoxy (1908) G.K. Chesterton

Chesterton's work on Project Gutenberg

Radio adaptations of Father Brown

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In today's episode, Brook and Sarah discuss modern great Val McDermid.

Discussed and mentioned

The Mermaids Singing (1995) Val McDermid

Clean Break: A Kate Brannigan Mystery (2011 Radio play) Val McDermid

Village SOS (2012 Radio Play) Val McDermid

"Second Murder At The Vicarage" in Marple, 12 New Mysteries (2022) Val McDermid

Forensics, The Anatomy of Crime (2014) Val McDermid

Queen Macbeth (2024) Val McDermid

Wire in the Blood (2002-2008) - adaptation of Carol Jordan/Tony Hill series

Karen Pirie (2022-present) - adaptation of the Karen Pirie series

Fun Lovin' Crime Writers

Books In The Life Of | Val McDermid

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In today's episode, Brook and Sarah speak with Reagan Davis, author of the Knitorious Murder Mysteries series, and discuss the overlap between crafts and mysteries.

Discussed and mentioned

Disturbing the Fleece

About Reagan Davis

• Website
• Instagram
• Facebook

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