Catch up with Kara Thomas, author of Little Monsters (out July 25!), The Darkest Corners, and the Prep School Confidential series about leaning in to a dark personal place with her writing, solving the mystery of Law & Order in the last five minutes, the exploitation of “dramatic re-enactments,” and when stories evade our best-laid plans.
Kara Thomas Show Notes
Prep School Confidential series by Kara Taylor (now Kara Thomas)
Paradise Lost (documentary)
Disappeared (TV series)
Serial (podcast)
The Jinx (documentary)
The Keepers (documentary)
My Favorite Murder (podcast)
Sword and Scale (podcast)
Mommy Dead and Dearest (documentary)
Munchausen syndrome (Factitious disorder)
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
CLUE (board game)
House (TV show)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Wives with Knives (TV series)
Making a Murderer (TV series)
O.J.: Made in America, the Academy Award-winning O.J. Simpson documentary by Ezra Edelman
American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson
Zodiac (movie)
Hidden Figures (movie)
Josh Mankiewicz from Dateline
Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo
The Craft (movie)
The Cheerleaders (Kara’s next book)
The Daily Beast article about Dryden, NY