Recs if you like Listen for the Lie...

Like Agatha Christie but in the modern world. Please leave recommendations!

A collection of mixed media and epistolary/immersive books

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

Featuring morally gray men, unreliable narrators, emotional damage, dragons, serial killers, fake dating, enemies-to-lovers, and at least 47 books someone claimed “changed their life.” Proceed with caution.

If being an unreliable narrator was a crime, these characters would be in trouble

All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.

Funny or darkly comic murder books featuring bungled plans, accidental deaths, bizarre families, amateur sleuths, incompetent criminals or people who are just having the worst day imaginable.

Thrillers I read or want to read. Variety of authors.

If you’re here, like me you might be tired of basically seeing the same plots and storylines over and over. This is a list of ones I’ve enjoyed that are all (mostly) different from each other*. Main thing in common might be the author.

*Can’t guarantee there aren’t similar types of twists/reveals lol.

Books that really should be read via audiobook instead of physical/digital copy. Production, narrator, experience all top tier. Memoirs narrated by the authors.

protagonists with amnesia or memory loss trying to figure out what happened/is going on

fiction that features podcasts and podcasters, whether they're following a crime, investigating a cold case, or something else entirely

From the game. Because I can't be the only one using it as an excuse to add to my tbr

I used to be a physical-only girlie, but I've changed my tune.

So I LOVE the show Cold Case (ilysm Lilly Rush/Scotty Valens). Cold case mystery/thrillers live in that unsettling space where justice failed the first time, and the world moved on as if the truth didn’t matter. These stories, like the show, return to those forgotten crimes years, even decades later, when a detective, journalist, podcaster, or relentless outsider decides to dig deeper. #tacklingunfinishedbusiness #coldcases

Books with red covers

Thrillers that unspool through episodes and transcripts—true-crime hosts, missing tapes, and secrets that sound worse in the dark. Binge like a podcast, panic like a page-turner.