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03/10/2025

M2D4 S8E19: Have You Seen This Body? (Part 1) by TG Wolff

Reginald "Reggie" Couture died of natural causes (effing cancer). His family and friends in Bonbanni, LA buried him in their tradition to allow his spirit to cross over. When two days later, Reggie's body came back to Bonbanni, it was clear to Lt. Pierre-Luc Fonteneau, known to all as Mystic, that Reggie's grave had been robbed and his body snatched. As Mystic as his team work to find the grave robber, the local priest and the newly empowered lux prepare to rebury the body and re-free the soul. If it were only that easy.

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29/09/2025

Hey Authors! Our Oops is your Woo-hoo!

The call for stories for Season 9 has been open and it was brought to our attention that we had two different dates listed for the call closing. It is now official....

The call for Season 9, Stuff That Can Kill You, will be open until 11:59p.m. on October 31, 2025. See our website for details on the call.

Welcome to Mysteries to Die For Season 9 Season 9 is all about the means of murder. STCKY—Stuff That Can Kill You—is an approach to categorizing and recognizing hazards in dangerous environments su…

26/09/2025

M2D4 Toe Tag: The Everest Enigma by Jeannette de Beauvoir, author

Abbie Brandford, PHD is on the adventure of a lifetime accompanying romance novelist Emma Caulfield to Mount Everest’s Base Camp. Abbie’s task is to support Emma’s research for her next book by diving deep into the history of George Mallory, the famed mountaineer who died attempting to summit in 1923. The journey pushes Abbie to her limits physically and it challenges her intellectually. The danger is real, moreso when rumors, thefts, and death come frightfully close.

Bottom line: The Everest Enigma is for you if you like your adventures tinted with mystery and steeped in history.

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24/09/2025

Erica Obey is this month's Author Spotlight!

Here's a look at our interview with her!

Q: What genres do you write in?
A: Traditional/locked room mysteries for the most part, sometimes with a touch of fantasy thrown in.

Q: What drew you to this genre of writing?
A: Well, the honest answer is, if I didn't have to kill someone at the beginning and tell you who did it and why by the end, I'd be writing Infinite Jest. And I HATED Infinite Jest. A more measured answer is that I'm a formalist. I enjoy exploring the constraints of a form and putting them to my own uses. Or as Robert Frost would have it, I like playing tennis with a net.

Q: Which author has inspired you the most?
A: I'm pretty romantic about Oxford, Dorothy L. Sayers, and the Inklings, although I'm scarcely a hard-core fan. (I am, however, a card-carrying member of the Tolkien Society.) Last year, I spent a glorious week in Oxford, researching The Luck of the Pevensies. We also took tea at Bletchley Park, another Mecca.

Q: What inspires the settings or locations you choose in your stories?
A: The trip to Oxford was actually a bit of an aberration. The Hudson Valley, where I live, is jam-packed with inspiration: Ghosts, legends, gilded age mansions, wonderful hiking and birding. All of them find a way into my stories -- although I do admit my husband and I enjoy having the excuse to travel for research trips.

Check out our post on Instagram to see more interview questions!

Erica has written for the M2D4 podcast for the past 4 seasons, so check out his episodes:
S8 E17: Was It The Vermeer?
S7 E7: Death of a Dungeon Master
S6 E5: One-Eyed Jack and The Su***de King
S5 E7: Dead Man's Switch

Check out more of Erica's work at her website: www.ericaobey.com

Thank you so much Erica for being such a long standing author with us, and for giving us such high quality stories these past couple of years! We always love your mysteries and can't wait to see what you write next time!

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19/09/2025

M2D4 S8E18: Slow Burn by Chuck Brownman

Buckingham Manufacturing's original plant has been destroyed by fire. The hand that lit the flame belonged to Torch Thompson but Detective Ron Larsen is after the hand behind the hand. Reluctantly and temporarily partnered with insurance investigator Joey Ross, Larsen has to sift through the credible motives of everyone from the CEO down to the administrative assistant to the head of the local union to find the one person who took Buckingham Manufacturing down.

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17/09/2025

Need inspiration? Here’s a strange fact that you could use in one of your own mysteries!

It is illegal in the state of Kentucky to sell dyed baby birds and rabbits. Dyed chicks and rabbits are popular around Easter, but the dye can be dangerous to the animal.

The law itself states, "No person shall sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange, display, or possess living baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits which have been dyed or colored; nor dye or color any baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits; nor sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange or to give away baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits, under two (2) months of age in any quantity less than six (6), except that any rabbit weighing three (3) pounds or more may be sold at an age of six (6) weeks. Any person who violates this section shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500. "

So if you need a weird law to base a fictional smuggling ring around, try dyed baby animals!

12/09/2025

M2D4 Toe Tag: All We Buried by Elena Taylor

All We Buried is a police procedural mystery. Sheriff Bet Rivers is the next in a long line of Rivers’ to serve Collier, Washington. On a quiet afternoon, trouble walks into her office in the form of Professor Peter Malone-he found a body in Lake Collier. A dead body isn’t an unusual occurrence in Lake Collier. It’s usually a tourist as the locals all know the lake is for looking at, not recreating in. The Jane Doe he finds isn’t known to any Collier residents. When her ID is discovered, it gets Bet no closer to who killed her, why, or how the body got into the lake. Her suspects arrived in town about the same time Jane did. There’s Dr. Malone, he has no proof he found the body as described; Robert Collier, IV, the prodigal great-great-grandson of the town’s founder; Eric Coulter, writer, musician, and Bet’s ex. Nothing like a challenge for your first homicide investigation.

Bottom line: All We Buried is for you if you like plot driven mysteries with rich settings and strong, quiet heroes

Published by Crooked Lane Books, promoted by Partners In Crime Tours

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10/09/2025

Let's Play "Title Unknown", where I take an obscure description of a popular book and design a cover image using AI. The description of this mystery is:

A young girl grows up in the American South during the 1930s. Through her eyes, we see her lawyer father take on a controversial case defending a Black man falsely accused of a terrible crime. Along the way, she and her brother learn about justice, prejudice, and the mysterious neighbor who never leaves his house.

Ok, this one is too easy. If it isn’t “To Kill A Mockingbird”, then I have lost all faith in myself. This book has had many different book covers, so I combined the iconic red mockingbird Atticus Finch.

I was right, it’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” That’s awesome, especially because I (kinda) got this week’s Title Unknown correct on our Instagram as well!

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05/09/2025

M2D4 S8E17 Was It the Vermeer? by Erica Obey

At Phelps Hall, the Sodality of St. Dismas is in a quadray...and so is Maggie Fletcher. An expert in iconology, Maggie was sent to Phelps Hall to appraise an icon of St. Dismas, the good thief, which was reported missing. When she arrives, both Maggie and canon lawyer Dr. Thomas are confused when the icon supposedly stolen has been replaced with a painting that has all the hallmarks of a previously unknown Vermeer. With her boss to the right, a developer to the left, and a Vatican investigator behind, Maggie has to sort through the facts to unravel this tangled weave.

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29/08/2025

M2D4 Toe Tag: Bazaar by

Bazaar is technothriller.

On the dark web, a new type of gambling has emerged—betting on the death dates of the rich, famous, and politically powerful. Two men see opportunity. Yemi Uzunma, with his sister Karen, sees a need for a new breed of personal security force. A need their security firm Raptor can fill. Aaron Williams sees a solution to his money problems and all he needs is his 3-D printer. As the betting pool grows Yemi’s and Aaron’s squads face off with one trying to protect and the other trying to kill the prize.

Bottom line: Bazaar is for you if you like your thrills hinged on technology with an element of lion versus tiger

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Listen to chapters one and two here or wherever you find Mysteries to Die For podcast.

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27/08/2025

Killer Nashville was amazing last weekend, we got to meet so many great authors and premier on various panels! We also did our own presentation called "10 Ways To Make Your Mystery Mediocre", which will become its own podcast episode later this year. So if you missed us at Killer Nashville, look out for that upcoming episode!

20/08/2025

Let's Play "Title Unknown", where I take an obscure description of a popular book and design a cover image using AI. The description for the book is:

An academic is beckoned abroad and spends a year deciphering cryptic riddles, engaging snakes, and even challenging a king and his army — all while preventing the rise of a supremacist.

Clearly, I thought this description was for "Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Arc" (despite the fact that Indiana Jones is a movie, not a book). However, one part of that description made me hesitant. It stated "spends a year" despite the fact that we don't know how much time passed in the first Indiana Jones movie. It also says "challenging a king and his army", which I figured was referring to the Hi**er and the Nazi's instead of the correct answer: chess.

Of course I was wrong, as I just made a very violent and inaccurate cover for the book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". Whoops

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