Episode 74: Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak

Perry and David talk about their recent reading in the crime field, and spend some time on one particularly interesting crossover of the crime and SF genres.

• General News (07:21)
  • Locus Awards (03:06)
  • CWA Daggers Awards (02:10)
  • Patricia McKillop (01:46)
• Crime Fiction (57:32)
  • Those Who Perish by Emma Viskic (05:14)
  • Better Off Dead by Lee and Andrew Child (14:39)
  • The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan (09:25)
  • Duck Deason Death by June Wright (05:43)
  • The City & the City by China Miéville (13:37)
  • B Is for Burglar by Sue Grafton (08:14)
• Windup (01:52)

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Illustration: painting by Pieter Claesz (1597-1660)

...I have heard
That guilty creatures sitting at a play
Have by the very cunning of the scene
Been struck so to the soul, that presently
They have proclaim’d their malefactions:
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.

⸺Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2