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Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer–in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can definitely talk books with her on Litsy and Goodreads. Depending on social media’s stability maybe also Twitter and Bluesky.
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Hello, mystery fans! Welcome to another edition of the Unusual Suspects newsletter! While I am not the biggest fan of rehashing old properties—*points at all the incredible new writers waiting for a shot*—I did grow up a huge fan of the everything-goes-boom action comedy films and a big Eddie Murphy fan, so I am absolutely going to watch Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F this weekend.
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What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall
For fans of remote mystery, suspense, missing persons, and undercover investigating!
Bailey Meadows has secured a coveted writing job with author Jack Beckham as his writer-in-residence. He’s a famous author, and she’ll be staying at his Topanga Canyon estate. But what no one but Bailey and her real boss know is that Bailey is actually there to find out what happened to Sam Morris, who disappeared months before while possibly on another missing person case. Now Bailey is trying to act the part of a writer while looking for clues, and she’s finding herself weirded out by plenty of things on the estate, including the history of women who have gone missing in the area.
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The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
For fans of missing person cases, family drama, multiple points of view, and nonlinear narratives!
It’s 1975, and teen Barbara Van Laar has gone missing from her summer camp. The Van Laar family is well known: not only do they own the camp, but their eight-year-old son Bear disappeared a year before Barbara was born.