Show Notes
A special episode! Anna chats with USA Today best-selling author Kemper Donovan about his new novel LOOSE LIPS, the second in the Ghostwriter series after the best-selling THE BUSY BODY (see ep 265). Kemper hosts the All About Agatha podcast and his crime novels bring the Golden Age of murder mysteries into a contemporary setting. LOOSE LIPS finds our ghost-writer on a literary cruise hosted by publishing celebrity Payton Garrett. A mysterious death occurs and the cruise becomes a murder investigation. Described as KNIVES OUT meets high seas intrigue, this is a fun and clever mystery. We loved it! Kemper recommends: My Eight Deranged Days on the Gone Girl Cruise by Imogen West-Knights Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever by Gary Shteyngart DEATH ON THE NILE by Agatha Christie THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 by Ruth Ware THE DEVIL AND THE DARK WATER by Stuart Turton MURDER IN THE SUBMARINE ZONE by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) In Our Time podcast Coming up: DISAPPOINT ME by Nicola Dinan Follow us! Kemper: Website: Kemper Donovan Podcast: All About Agatha Facebook: Kemper Donovan Books X: @allaboutthedame Insta: @allaboutagatha Anna: Insta: @abailliekaras Substack: Books On The Go Email: [email protected]
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