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Homecoming - Podcast by Gimlet Media

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  Gimlet Media on Spotify presents Homecoming -  A Psychological and thrilling series. Homecoming is the story of a case worker/counsellor who tends to soldiers who have returned from war, to help them join back civilian life. She has been appointed to run this facility in Tampa. The series is a lot of dialogue - phone calls and conversations - between different sets of characters, that helps progress the story.  It is also one recording in particular, of conversations that happen between a Walter Cruz, a soldier and this  case worker/counsellor , Heidi Bergman.  In one set of conversations you will hear: - Heidi either wanting to forget or feigning any memory of anything she had to do with the Homecoming project.  - It is also possible that Heidi has at memory loss or has convinced herself to disengage or forget this phase of life.  - Heidi has risked her relationships to be part of this facility and its workings. - Colin, Heidi's boss (played by Davi...

Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

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Malcolm ‘Mal’ Kershaw is the owner of the Old Devil’s Bookstore. Mal started the bookstore with the idea that he would help his customers find the right book. He researched his books well and always had enough information to give to his customers. He even wrote blogs like lists we find on various social media platforms these days - top 10 books you have to read this summer or best books to read this Halloween or even the best crime fiction you should have read. One such blog post would change the course of Mal’s life, isn’t something he was expecting. He was contacted by an FBI agent for a murder investigation and was informed that someone was using his blog post and had committed 8 perfect murders - ones without a trace; murders that were brilliantly executed and would remain unsolved. What started off as an innocent book, took form of a memoir. Mal writes this book, which he would have liked to call “The Whole Truth”, recounting about what really the story was. It led me to assume on...