Ep 7 | They All Fall Down: My LEAST Favorite Mystery Book Subgenre

07/19/24 • 31 min

Welcome back to episode 7 of Flip the Page!
In today's episode, I'll be diving into one of my least favorite mystery book genres in Rachel Howzell Hall's, "They All Fall Down".
Miriam Macy sails off with six strangers to a private island off the coast of Mexico, believing she’s about to partake in a reality competition show, in a remote island paradise, with a hefty monetary prize set for the winner to take home. It isn’t long, however, before she realizes she, and the others on the island were played. When people start dropping like flies, Miriam realizes the game she was brought onto this island to play, is a lethal one. With each person harboring dark secrets and suspicion running rampant on the remote island, Miriam can only trust herself as she works to uncover who on the island is behind these murders, before she is the next one to drop.

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07/19/24 • 31 min

Flip the Page - Ep 7 | They All Fall Down: My LEAST Favorite Mystery Book Subgenre

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Locked room murder mysteries. How I loathe you. The locked room murder mystery is a popular subgenre of the mystery genre where a crime, typically a murder, is committed in an enclosed space or environment where it seems impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime without evading detection. The creator of this subgenre is up for debate. Some might tell you. Sheridan Le Fanu, who coined the subgenre in his gothic nov

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