Bookwild - Books We Wish We Could Erase From Our Memory And Read Again

Episode Date: March 8, 2025

This week, Gare and I talk about books we wish we could erase from our memories and re-read!Books We DiscussedLocal Woman MissingThe Last Winter of Dani LansingThe Night BirdThe Girl Who Was Taken1984The ShardsAll the Missing GirlsWhat You Don’t Know Get Bookwild MerchCheck Out My Stories Are My Religion SubstackCheck Out Author Social Media PackagesCheck out the Bookwild Community on PatreonCheck out the Imposter Hour Podcast with Liz and GregFollow @imbookwild on InstagramOther Co-hosts On Instagram:Gare Billings @gareindeedreadsSteph Lauer @books.in.badgerlandHalley Sutton @halleysutton25Brian Watson @readingwithbrian 

I have a new addiction. And I have not told you about it yet. Oh, I get to find out live. I'm harboring a secret. I need to know if you are a game show fan. I mean, I wouldn't say that I am. I can't remember the last time I watched one. Because you're talking about like Wheel of Fortune.

Mm-hmm. I think like Big Brother was the last like game I watched. But I don't think that's what you're talking about. I am so obsessed with pop culture Jeopardy. I have been hearing about this. Stop. There's like 30 something episodes and I've been like binging them. I love regular Jeopardy, right?

But like there's only so much I know because like I was not a history buff. I am not good with like geography. I don't care about religion. And so like it's like always been like the pop culture kind of things, right? Yeah. And there are so many, like, things in this show that are so amazing. Like, there's, like, Taylor Swift themes. There's, like, horror movie themes.

There's, like, one of them was, like, who's this director that almost directed Scream 7, but had to back out? And I was like, oh, my God, it's Chris Landon. Like, that would never be on regular Jeopardy. I am such a fan of it. I hope that it stays on for, like, 100 seasons. I want to be 80 years old watching pop culture jeopardy. Pop culture stuff is just fun.

But I'm like at that age where like I'm too old for some of the things. Like the Gen Z stuff. Yeah. And then like there are other things where I'm like too young for. You know, like sometimes it's like 70s like things and I'm like, well, I wasn't alive in the 70s. But like I just am so obsessed with it. It is so much fun. I've got my dad into it.

like my dad's like I'm not like a big pop culture person but like he's like you know the like some of the references are fun and I think it's like a really really fun show um and like he'll even do like all right how much are you going to bet for like the oh that's so cute the double jeopardy or whatever it's like the one of the one of the very final jeopardy I know yeah you were you were right yeah yeah because like the other one the other day I like nailed it. I nailed it and I can't think of what it was. But I just wanted to know like it's so abnormal for me to be like obsessed with this. And so I wanted to know like if you were a game show fan or if there was like one thing that you watch on TV for comfort that like isn't something that people would expect, I guess.

Don't say severance. People would expect that. Um, there is, like there is show airing on, I think, Peacock, um, called St. Dennis Medical. And it's just like a really funny sitcom that takes place in a hospital. So we've been watching that at night if we need to like not watch a thriller that keeps us up all night. Um, I haven't watched like, I'm not even caught up on reality TV. Normally reality TV is my like, easy watching TV, but I don't know. I've just been reading. I've just been reading more. Good for you. I think I've been reading more too. I haven't, I think that I'm really out of reality TV. Like, I think that it's worn off for me. I've been watching pop culture Jeopardy and I'm actually rewatching White Lotus from the beginning. The first season. Before I start the third season.

And I think I have like two or three left of season two. Yeah. I've realized my taste in men needs to change. Well, go on. When I watched season two the first time when it first aired, obviously like everybody else, I was like, oh my God, Theo James is so high. I love him, love him, love him, love him. And like, when I was watching it, I was like, I don't care that he did like really shitty things in the show.

I still wanted to be with him. And then I watched it this time and like when he like does one thing, I'm like, you are not a good man. And I'm realizing that like I have the biggest crush on Albi. So Albi. Oh, the darker hair one, right? Yes. And he's the one that's traveling with his father and his grandfather. He is the sweetest.

I forgot the grandfather. Go ahead. Sorry. Cutest. Sweetest man. The grandfather is my favorite. favorite character in the season because the actor is so on point with his like. Yes.

It's either him or Aubrey Plaza. Oh my God. Aubrey? I fucking love her. I love her too. One of my favorite movies is Ingrid Goes West. Have you watched that? Yeah.

You recommended it. Like, I think when we started this, I loved it. I want it. Full circle. Yeah. But like she plays quirky characters and like, everything she does. And I fear that she gets like typecast. But like her and this is like incredible. Yeah. And I remember her saying something along those lines where she was like,

this was one where like I actually got to be a little bit more like myself. She's just so fucking good. She's so good. I feel so bad for her. I do too. I keep thinking about that every time I watch it now. I can't remember which award show it was that she came on, but she was wearing one of his tie-dye shirts or his S&L. She was at the 50s. and she announced something and he got he went crazy with tie-dye during the pandemic and she was wearing one of his shirts and it made me cry I feel bad but positive vibes to Aubrey yeah we love you and to all of us honestly yeah I'm excited for you to get into season three because there's some fun stuff to talk about

I'm very excited for Parker Posey. Oh my God. She is bodying that role. She does everything. Everything. Yeah. She is my favorite part of Screen 3. Oh, yeah. See, I don't have it all arranged in my mind that I remember all these things about Scream all the time.

Yeah. That's why you have you. That's why you have me. I, her and Courtney Cox together and they're like banter and like, amazing. I know. I love her. I keep telling anyone who doesn't know what soggy Schwartz looks like, just go to her Instagram. But when the trailers first dropped, I kept telling her, I was like, I keep seeing this trailer and I think that you're in it. Like Parker Posey and her are like relatively similar looking. So everybody can go check out that little

Oak Wild Easter egg, I guess. That's so cool. Yeah. I love her. Speaking of things we love. Mm-hmm. So we all know I don't reread books. But I might, is the truth of it. Because we are talking about, but if I could just forget a book and reread it, what would it be? And so then I was going deep into my archives of what I've read throughout my whole life.

I don't know why I'm explaining this so like, I don't know. I feel like I'm saying it weird. But made me realize maybe I could reread a couple because it's been just long enough. I feel like we had to have like a psychological sci-fi spin on the question. Because it's like, Kate, what book would you like to reread? And you're like, I don't reread books. Next question. And then it's like, if somebody wiped this book from your memory, what book would you be?

And then you're like, okay, now I'm into this. Now I can do it. now I can do it. Yeah. There's so many good ones. So yeah, these are like some of our favorite books that we like, well, I'm a re-reader. I'm a re-reader. I'm a re-reader.

I just don't have the time. If, like, if I had more time, these are the books that I would need to reread because I really enjoyed, like, the reading experience or the twist is one I didn't see coming. Or, like, I just, like, completely fell in love with the story and, like, could not. put it down. So that's kind of like what my my main thing was. Like I just want to like relive that reading experience again. Yeah. Same. Like some books I'm like I don't remember that at all. And like these right. This is what I was wearing when I read it. I was like, it was like, it was 55 degrees and rainy outside. Like you know what I mean? Like I remember like everything about my reading experience

with it. Yeah. Yeah. I do have those too. Reading man. Do you owe me to go first? Do you want to go first yeah you go first okay ladies first i am going to start off with one that just had a special edition release well no the release date was she doesn't come out until april but there's a special edition coming out of local woman missing by mary kubica and it is my favorite of hers ever um Shelby tibo is the first to go missing not long after Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanished just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once peaceful community.

Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, 11 years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find. That's a nice short description of it. Mm-hmm.

It is. It's kind of like... It's kind of like a domestic suspense. Yeah. And it's a thriller. And it's like some very complicated relationships that play out. But the special edition has hot pink sprayed edges. So I had to buy it.

So I pre-ordered it. I love Mary Kubikovac. Mm-hmm. she's who got me into Instagram yes the good girl right girl yep everybody was like oh my god that book is so good I'm glad you recommended it and da da da da da and then I was like okay

I'm like this is fun well I'm just going to post all these pictures yeah I think that's probably my next favorite of hers it's hard for me to because they're all like very like atmospheric too they are Oh, she's so good. Actually, here's my little Mary Kubica shelf right here.

All my Mary Kubica books. That's perfect. I think I don't have any, actually. Not physical copies. We're going to have to get that special edition for you then. I know. It's so pretty. I put a link if people want to go look at it.

I'm going to get one. I'm going to get one out of the way that, actually, I'm going to not talk about that one. I'm going to try to surprise you. He's all surprise her. I'm just going to say one of mine was a density of souls by Christopher Rice, but I feel like I mentioned that book so much on here that like it should be a given. So we're going to go with some other ones.

I love you, Christopher Rice. I love density of souls. Everyone needs to read it. My first one is the last winter of Danny Lansing. Oh, yes. Because I've mentioned. this, but I don't know if I've ever told anybody what it's about. It says that it's a riveting psychological thriller in tradition of before I go to sleep and memento. 20 years ago, college

student Danny Lansing was kidnapped and brutally murdered. The killer was never found in the cases gone long cold. Her parents, Patty and Jim, were utterly devastated, their marriage destroyed. While Jim fell apart, Patty was consumed by the unsolved case. She abandoned her journalism career and her marriage to spend every waking hour searching and plotting. She keeps contact with Tom, Danny's childhood sweetheart, who has become a detective intent on solving murders like Danny's. When he finds a lead that seems ironclad, he brings Patty in on it. After years of dead ends, her obsession is rekindled and she will do anything for revenge, even become a killer herself, dragging her whole family into the nightmare once again as lies and secrets are uncovered.

You said this one's, it's pretty much a tragedy. right i mean here's my thing i thought it was not that tragedies are always bad no i was anyway no ahead i i think that all books that i read are sad in a sense of most of them have to do with murder right like i'm a thriller junkie so with this one you have you already know that there's a girl who has been kidnapped and murdered that her boyfriend became a detective because of her unsolved case. Her parents are emotionally destroyed, which I guess would be the same thing in most books. It's just the way that he writes them. It's very believable. So when you're reading it, the characters really do come alive. And it's like you have the father who's grieving,

the mother who's grieving, the boyfriend who's grieving. And then all the while you're trying to go along with them while they still deal with this like years. and years later and are also trying to solve like what happened to her and what happened to her when you get to it is very sad in itself as well like you're just kind of like that's not how I would want to go out yeah so I think like if you if you could handle like rabbit hole I think you can handle this so it's an it's an amazing book i will forever yeah that's been a favorite of years forever

i will forever i think i read it in like 2012 maybe oh yeah and i'm obsessed with the cover because it's right here i know I'm obsessed with it so unique I love dame

and I have it in hardcover which is not like me so that just goes to show you how much I love Danny Lansing. Right. I think I have it on my Kimball, too. Now I want to reread it.

Gotta go. That was got to the point. Got a jet. Oh, that would be so funny. Hang up. I guess we're done here. Well, my next

one. I don't know. I have no segue. It's called The Nightbergered by Brian Freeman, and it's part of a series. Oh, my gosh. I loved this book so much. I was just thinking about a couple weeks ago for some reason. Ooh, it was a thriller nominee for 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards. It's a series about Frost Easton, a homicide detective.

Who Doesn't like coincidences? When a series of bizarre deaths rocked San Francisco, a seemingly random as seemingly random women suffer violent psychotic breaks Frost looks for a connection that leads him to psychiatrist Francesca Stein. Frankie's controversial therapy

helps people erase their most terrifying memories and all the victims were her patients. As Frost and Frankie carry out their own investigations, the case becomes increasingly personal and dangerous. Long submerged secret surface as someone called the night bird taunts the pair with cryptic messages pertaining to the deaths. Soon Frankie is forced to confront strange gaps in her own memory,

and Frost faces a killer who knows the detectives were spheres. As the body count rises in the night bird circles ever closer, a dedicated cop and a brilliant doctor race to solve the puzzle before a cunning killer claims another victim. This one is like psychological thriller, mystery thriller. It has all kinds of elements and memory elements. So, of course, I'm obsessed.

I, oh, Murphy, stop it. I will forever be grateful for you for everything you've ever brought to my life. But especially for getting me into Brian Freeman because he is. I don't remember the Ursulina. I do. But you had me read this first. I read this trilogy first. So good.

I just am obsessed. I'm obsessed so much. I gave all of them five stars, all three. I haven't had a, I want like a fun series to Ben. Oh yeah. But like I want like a fun reading experience, I guess is what I'm saying. Yeah. But yeah, it's so good.

It's so good. And that's how I felt reading the Zoe Bentley trilogy. Oh yeah. Because I was like, wow, these are so. like addictive but yeah that's the best uh ursulina holy shit oh so good oh i don't know a segue i didn't either actually i kind of do here's a book i picked one that you and i have bonded over multiple times ooh that i need to read again and like i will make it my mission to read this book again because of how much I loved it.

The girl who was taken by Charlie Dunley. I almost used that one. Really? Yes. I love it. That's the one I did last minute to be like, stop talking about it. It was like a backup. Like it was when I thought about.

So bad she picked it. Two abducted girls, one who returns, one who doesn't. The night they go missing, high school seniors, Nicole Cuddy, and Megan McDonald are at a beach party in their. small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Police launch a massive search, but hope is almost lost until Megan escapes from a bunker deep in the woods. A year later, the bestselling account of her ordeal has made Megan a celebrity. It's a triumphant story except for one inconvenience. Nicole is still missing. That's, I think that's a typo. I think so too.

Triumphant story except for one little inconvenience, I'm going to say, that Nicole is still missing. Nicole's older sister, Livia, a fellow in forensic pathology, expects that one day Nicole's body will be found in her sister's fate determined. Instead, the first clue comes from another body, that of a young man connected to Nicole's past. Livia reaches out to Megan to learn more about that fateful night. Other girls have disappeared and she's increasingly sure the cases are connected. Megan knows more than she revealed in her book. Flashes of memory are pointing to something more monstrous than she described. And the deeper she and Livia dig, the more they realize that sometimes true terror lies in finding exactly what you've been looking for.

Damn. What a synopsis. It's just so freaking twisty. Yes. I love, I hate her name, but I love Livia because I always want to call her Olivia. I know. I've never read a character like that anywhere else yet. Yeah. I'm like, so, but I loved her as a character because there's nothing better than an introduction to me than somebody who is not the stereotype of one day maybe they'll find her alive.

Like she's like, I just want you to find my sister's dead body so like I can finally put this to rest. And like she's not like, oh, she's still alive or like there's still hope or like she's like she's been gone long enough. I know she's dead. Yeah. You know, so like I just like love that. as like a part of her character um and yeah that's an ending i will never forget yeah dark as fuck it's very dark i think that was the first of his that i read i think i think it was mine too i think it was either my first or second and i'm obsessed with the cover might have been the first

one i don't know i think i read summit lake i think i read the girl who was taken and then some choose darkness maybe that was definitely short after for me oh my god so good i still remember that ending i think or it's the second one in the series i know the first one is what i'm thinking because the suicide house is the second one oh yes yes that one is dark too i like that they're reissuing all of his covers too oh they're reissuing all of them nice i think so i have seen some different i searched and they all kind of have the same like vibe now. Like the same like font and everything and just like the picture. So now I'm like not only do I want to reread all of them, but I want to have new additions. Yeah. So but yeah, he's so good. He has a

new one coming on July. It sounds really good too. Yes. You told us it was on that galley and I went and got it. Smatched it up. Yeah, I'm auto approved for, who's that, is that Kensington? Kensington. Yeah. So I was able to just get it. I'm not. I did get invited to be part of his fan club. Oh yeah. That's cool. Donley detectives. Oh, that's cool. And they said they're going to send me an arc of his new one. Nice. So I'm like, that'll probably be one that I will just be like, I don't care when it comes out. I'm reading those as soon as it comes in. Mm-hmm. Same. Well, I guess I have it, but. true oh i'm still getting caught up on april i think um i have no subway for this one but i recently saw a

shirt well i got a shirt advertised to me on instagram that said make or well fiction again and uh i just loved that and it reminded me that like 1984 was technically my first experience with sci-fi and like kind of political sci-fi back in like high school but I haven't read it since. And so this is when I might actually read at some point this year. Okay. 1984 is the story of one man's nightmare Odyssey

as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and power structure that controls not only information, but also individual thought and memory. A prophetic haunting tale. Why these sentences, what is happening? Like, is there another? I feel like I'm having a brain an ear. Winston Smith toes the party line,

rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the ministry of truth. With each lie, he writes, Winston grows to hate the party that seeks power for its own sake and prosecutes those who dare to commit thought crimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can't escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching. A startling and haunting novel, 1984, creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations or the power of its admonition. a power that seems to grow, not lessen with the passage of time. Well, that got sad, but it is a dystopic novel. And we kind of have a dystopic vibe going on this year.

So I'm like, why not revisit this? Oh, my God. So, yeah, mine, I'm having a lot about thought crime, thoughts, controlling people's minds is one of my themes already. I just love how like your range of choices. I know. When I thought of this one, I was like, nobody would guess this one. Is that the one you were talking about? Yeah. Yeah. Well, because I was like Mary Kubicon, I was like, oh, okay. And then like you were talking about like, um, Nightbird. And I was like, oh. And I'm like, it was kind of like that time we were doing the one episode where you were like,

I feel like all of my, I think it was like the toxic love one or like the see me, see me one. And you were like, all my choices are like books that like you love, basically. So like I was like, oh, then like you're like 1984. I was like, oh my God. You're like, what the fuck? Yeah, I'm definitely not going to. I actually never read it.

Yeah. I wouldn't think it was, you know, something you were dying. Everybody raves about it. But. I used to watch Big Brother obsessively. That would have been my answer to your question a few years ago. Yeah. Hmm.

Mm-hmm. Um, that's crazy. That's crazy. Um, I don't have, I don't have a segue. I don't know what to say. We just have range on this episode. We do. Um,

mine takes place in 1981 a few years before 1984 that's adjacent this is one I know you're going to be like okay you talk about this book all the time but this is one of my favorite reading experiences of my life

The Shards by Brett Easton Ellis I'm sorry I figured I am so obsessed with this book it's so cinematic and atmospheric and I'm just like I think that he's so good I just I can't help that um okay 17 year old brett is a senior at the exclusive buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past robert mallory is bright handsome charismatic and shielding a secret from brett and his friends even as he becomes part of their tightly knit circle brett's obsession with Mallory is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling occupation with the

trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawn even closer to Brett and his friends, taunting them, and Brett in particular with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence. The coincidences are uncanny, but they also filter through the imagination of a teenager whose gifts for constructing narrative from the filaments of his own life are about to make him one of the most explosive literary sensations of his generation. Can he trust his friends or his own mind to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and his own innate desires, buffeted by the unhealthy fixations, he spirals into paranoia and isolation as relationship between the trawler and Robert Mallory hurdles inexplorably toward a collision.

I have a fucking literary words in that synopsis to just be like, listen, he's obsessed with the student and he's also like obsessed of the serial killer who's getting very close to him. You're like, fuck inexorably. He's obsessed. Yeah, I'm like, what the fuck is this? These are the words that should have been in 1984's. You know what I mean? That's what, see, that's the part I can't even remember. I can't remember if it's like wordy or what. I would love to reread this, but I'm also, so they're going to be making the shards into a TV show. Yes. I believe on HBO Max. So I I want to reread it before the show, obviously, but I'm also very curious, and I really think that I'm brave enough to finally read this. Oh, you haven't read it before?

Okay, this is disgusting. Why did I think that you had? Because this book is disgusting. Okay. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know. That's why I haven't read it. So when the movie came out in, like, 2000, I was like 13.

Yeah. So I bought the book Because I was like Oh I'm going to read the book for the movie And a 13 year old should not have been reading this No Because there's very like gross Descriptions of some of the things that he does

Like compare to the movie But I'm like maybe now I can just be I could be brave enough to To read this and finally do it I believe in you Because I really want to recast it yeah like I really want to do like a fan cast for this because I have some really good ideas yeah that would be fun um this was actually a question on pop culture jeopardy

oh nice you know that what's that trend on TikTok where it's like I'm looking for a man in finance trust five six five blue eye yes yes yes um so one of the topics was I'm looking for a man in finance oh my god like who is like who is was the actor that played um paul an american psycho nice and i was like it's jared lala you're screaming at the tv i was like oh my god i i just like watch american psycho more than most people should and the only thing that i have to fast forward during is the part where he kills the dog yeah that one hurts i don't know if he kills the dog or if he just kicks it? Either.

But I, that's why I don't know because I always just like fast forward through it. I don't blame me. Like fucking A. Patrick. Mm-hmm. I like to say his name like that because that's how Reese Witherspoon says it in the movie. Oh, yeah. She has like the little like pot belly pig and she's like, why are you so grumpy at Christmas, Patrick? Her daughter looks so much like her.

Oh, my God, I know. That time period. Oh, so good. Well, my next one is my favorite Megan Miranda book, All the Missing Girls. I will reread this with you when you finally do it. We should. Actually, yeah. Like, I just loved this one, 2016.

I was long ago. So maybe I will. Almost 10 years ago, dude. Isn't that crazy? What the fuck. Ooh, I read this. years ago. Oh my God. That's crazy. I know. I've been taking... Who knew this episode was going to give me an existential crisis?

I'm like thinking to myself like in a couple of years it'll be my 10 year anniversary on books togram. That's kind of crazy. I've never committed to anything without... I guess I technically have to Tyler and my dogs. Okay. All the missing girls. Which has... has a Tyler in it, coincidentally. It's been 10 years since Nicolette Farrell. It's been 10 years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nick is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne's case and breaks open

old wounds long since stitched. The decade-old investigation focused on Nick, her brother Daniel, her boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne's boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nick has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby. Jackson works at the town bar and Tyler is dating Annalise Carter, Nick's younger neighbor, and the group's alibi for the night Corinne disappeared. Then within days of Nick's return, Annalise goes missing. Told backwards, day 15 to day one from the time Annalise goes missing, Nick works two, unravel the truth about her younger neighbor's disappearance, revealing shocking truth about her friends,

her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night 10 years ago. I love a cool timeline thing like that too. And she does it so well in this book. She does it so well. And it is feral. I actually have a friend who's last name feral. Thank you. Thank you.

I love the name Corinne. I love the cast in that book. And I felt like it was very atmospheric, but like in a way that added to the story. Here little toenials. Yeah, it was very atmospheric that added to the story and like the like eerieness and everything. I don't know about you, but like I live in such because I live in such a like a remote area. Like when I have a book like that, like I almost like picture my own hometown sometimes when I read it. do you ever do that i grew up in a really well the second half of my childhood in a very very

small town so i i do imagine parts of that and like my high school like three towns had to come together to even make a high school so anything small town high school definitely taking place where like my memories of that are yeah yeah i feel you there little town book. It is. Her next one sounds really good too. I was going to say that. Do I have her next one? I think I requested it, but I haven't heard anything. I don't know if I do. I'm really excited for it. She's somebody that I'd actually like to go back and like read her entire catalog. I know because I really enjoyed a lot of hers. And I feel like there's some that like I just didn't get to. You know what I mean? Yeah, there are. I didn't read them for some reason. Like I haven't read the. Like I haven't read the

perfect stranger or the girl from widow hills. Hmm. Might need to read some Megan Miranda for my backlist. I think we shall. Mm-hmm. I have, I have one that I want to read again, but I don't think that you've read it, and I think that it would be right up your alley. Ooh. It is called What You Don't Know.

by Joanne Chaney. Oh, yeah. He didn't take their lives, but he ruined them. A series of murders brings Denver to its knees in a wonderfully voice-driven, dark, rye, and holy original page-turning debut. The last victims of an infamous serial killer on death row may be the ones he didn't kill. Seven years ago, Detective Paul Hoskins and his larger-than-life partner saw one of the biggest serial murder cases of the decade. They dug up 33 bodies in a crawl space belonging to the beloved Jackie Siver, a pillar of the community and a successful businessman. Sammy Peterson was the lead reporter on the case.

Her byline was on the front page of every newspaper every day. Seaver's wife, Gloria, claimed to be as surprised as everyone else. Today, Hoskins has been banished to cold cases. Sammy is selling makeup at the mall, and Gloria is trying to navigate a world where she can't escape condemnation. Seaver? He's watching the show. When a series of new murders occurs and the victims are all somehow connected to Sever, Gloria is once again thrust in the spotlight while Hoskins and Sammy realizes maybe their chance to get their lives back,

even if it means forfeiting their humanity in the process. Man. You said this one's kind of political, too, right? Is that what you said? I don't think so. What am I thinking of? I can't remember. It was from a really long time ago.

I don't think it's horrible. I might be thinking of another red and black cover. You might be. I'm not a big political. I know. So this random fragment of memory I'm having is you saying that and you're like, this is like the most involved in politics book I've ever read and liked. And I think it was just another. Hello. Well, we were going to do five books, but my dogs are losing their minds.

So you're definitely hearing a rough cut right now because they were in a shouting match with the neighbor dog. So let us know if there are any books that you want to reread. Yeah. Or if you need to reread any of the books that we mentioned.