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Let's talk about bloodbaths! Shelley Puhak returns to talk The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster.

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Let's return to the 80s! Elliot Williams joins me to talk Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation.

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Let's place a bet! Danny Funt joins me to talk Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling.

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Let's object! Elizabeth Chamblee Burch joins me to talk The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doctors Fuel America's Lawsuit Factory.

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And now for something a little different! We can't always get an author on the pod, but it doesn't mean their books aren't amazing. Here are 5 new releases I don't want you to miss plus a bonus classic that is one of my favorites.

Covered in this installment:

The Traitor's Circle by Jonathan Freedland

Kings and Pawns by Howard Bryant

A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls by Adam Morgan

The Rembrandt Heist by Anthony Amore

Useless Etymology by Jess Zafarris

The White Cascade by Gary Krist

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Let's find some treasure! Julian Sancton joins me to talk Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire.

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Let's have some common sense! Jack Kelly joins me to talk Tom Paine's War: The Words That Rallied a Nation and the Founder for Our Time.

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Let's do some invention! Graham Watson joins me to talk The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life.

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