Five years ago Rebecca Makkai was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award. Now, in what is a treat for readers, Rebecca Makkai has just released a brand new novel, “I Have Some Questions for You”. It is a marvelously plotted mystery/novel about a podcaster, Bodie Kane, who returns to her prep school to teach a mini-course. One of her students wants to reinvestigate, with a podcast, a murder that occurred when Bodie was a student and for which a school staffer may have been wrongly convicted. The novel investigates the vagaries of memory, the realities of violence against women, and the near-impossibility of reversing a years-old conviction. The book has received considerable pre-publication praise, deservedly so.

And our bookstore this week has a wonderful story. The brand new Beacon Hill Books and Cafe in downtown Boston, at times, has customers lined up to get in. Find out why.

Books mentioned in this week's podcast:

• I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai
• The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
• Music for Wartime: Stories by Rebecca Makkai
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
• Paige of Beacon Hill by Sarah S. Brannen

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