Friday, January 3, 2025

Five thrilling books that will inspire you to listen to a true crime podcast

Katherine Greene is the pen name of bestselling authors A. Meredith Walters and Claire C. Riley. They each cut their teeth on spine-tingling thrillers and true crime. It was their love of dark, twisted tales with a strong female voice led them to create stories that leave you guessing. Both currently live in the United Kingdom with their families.

The Lake of Lost Girls is their second novel.

At CrimeReads the authors tagged five "amazing stories that use [true crime podcasts] to deliver a fast-paced, and complicated narrative." One title on the list:
Sadie by Courtney Summers: This book focuses on some of our own very favorite things in a thriller: a small town, a missing girl, podcast snippets and revenge! A gut-wrenching story that flips back and forth between podcast segments and one jaded teen’s journey, with a closing line that will leave you speechless for a long time afterwards.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Sadie is among Megan Cooley Peterson's eight titles exploring real life crimes, Lisa Schroeder's seven top mysteries about teens, Kate McLaughlin's seven top fictional characters who are bent but not broken and Kate Kessler's six top revenge thrillers featuring female protagonists.

--Marshal Zeringue