Mary Kubica

And I'm not the prolific thriller reader that Olivia is.

but I don't know a ton of times where I'm like whoa oh interesting like where I'm kind of blindsided by a turn a twist or turn that was also earned that you felt like oh yeah actually that does make sense I need to flip back a couple pages but yes that totally makes sense well done like and that's what I thought the back two-thirds of this book so it again took a lot of twists and turns was a I think a fine domestic thriller a good entry into the genre if you are Oh, who have I liked the last couple of years? If you've liked a Mary Kubica book, give Jocelyn Jackson a go.

You might want to give her a try.

See what you think.

You may think I'm crazy, but I am a lover of any sort of like thriller, mystery, beach read.

So I just finished The Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica.

She's like a fantastic writer of mystery kind of thriller stuff.

That's great.

Would you rather meet your favorite author or your favorite literary character? And

who would that be? Probably author.

And either the author I just mentioned, Mary Kubica, or... uh elin held the brand who writes another like whole series of beach reads yes

well thank you so much morgan for talking with us today thank you so much it was a pleasure so Thank you, Morgan, for joining us on this episode of Reading Realities.

"Trust me, Johnny.

It's Not Her by Mary Kubica." Good night.

[upbeat music] Uh, this has been a wonderful, uh, uh, little miniseries here with, uh, with John Cribbs, uh, co-piloting with us, and it got me thinking about all of the, the, the wonderful Cribbs, uh, experiences we've had on the podcast and, and specifically about that first game we played with him all the way back in the Planet of the Apes days.

Uh, you might recall that that game was, um, Who's Under All That? And it was, you know, actors in a ton of makeup or masks, and who is this? Oh, it's, you know, it's Tilda Swinton in Suspiria as an, as an old cisgender man or whatever.

It was a Goodreads Choice nominee for Best Thriller.

It received glowing endorsements from heavy hitters in the genre like Jessica Knoll and Mary Kubica.

Reviewers at Entertainment Weekly called it haunting and magnetic, and Kirkus Reviews specifically highlighted the complex heroic women at the center of the story and the genuinely unexpected nature of the ending.

But amidst the acclaim, critics were very careful to issue accurate content warnings, and I think it's vital we echo them here.

It's really the evolution of the true crime obsession, and we are moving away from nonfiction documentaries and podcasts and watching authors map historical trauma onto the highly structured engine of a fictional thriller.

Mary Kubica's It's Not Her, which dropped in February, is the perfect example of this.

Such an intense book.

It really is.

We did go for kind of a themed episode.

I read a mystery called It's Not Her by Mary Kubica.

And I read How to Kill a Witch, The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women by Zoe Venditucci and Claire Mitchell.

And I can't think of a more horrifying thing.