Seven crime titles that engage with reality TV

Molly Odintz is the Senior Editor for CrimeReads and the editor of Austin Noir, forthcoming from Akashic Books. She grew up in Austin and worked as a bookseller at BookPeople, and recently returned to Central Texas after five years in NYC. She likes cats, crime novels, and coffee.

At CrimeReads Odintz tagged seven "great thrillers and mysteries coming out over the past few years that engage with reality

TV, its artifice, its struggies, and its discontents." One title on the list:

Sarah Strohmeyer, We Love to Entertain

Home improvement gone haywire!!! In We Love to Entertain, three teams are competing to win a design and home improvement contest on a reality show called “To the Manor Build,” but disaster strikes when the engaged couple rehabbing an estate in Vermont disappears on the eve of their wedding. Their assistant, already ostracized by her home town for a mysterious incident in high school, quickly becomes the main suspect, but her mother is determined to clear her name and find the real culprit.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue