Bookstore Explorer

Episode 15: Murder By the Book, Houston, TX

October 31, 2022 Matt Browning
Bookstore Explorer
Episode 15: Murder By the Book, Houston, TX
Show Notes
Happy Halloween! This week, we're back in Houston, Texas, for a spooky'ish themed visit to Murder By the Book, one of the oldest and coolest mystery bookshops in the nation! Bookseller John McDougall shares the history of this great store and shares some favorite mystery reads. Books We Talk About: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson, Louise Penny's Gamache series, The Silence of hte Lambs by Thomas Harris, The Stranger Diaries by Ellly Griffiths, Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series, Sherlock Holmes by Sir A.C. Doyle, The Murder She Wrote series, SJ Bennett's Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series, Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club series, The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood, Stephanie Graves' Olive Bright Pigeoneer series, The Spite House by Johnny Compton and The Villa by Rachel Hawkins, plus several other mystery writers!