Season Two: Another Teaser With Amy and Kate
9/18/2025 | 15m - Latest episode
We're back, Dear Listeners, and we've missed you! We hope you've missed us too. We're kicking off Season Two with this teaser, and all new episodes, some recorded last year and some this year. We're working real hard to find that light among all this dark, and hope you continue to join us as we go Finding Good Bones.
This Episode's Guest
This is just a teaser, there Is no "guest" but please enjoy this photo of Kate and Amy on their way to a wedding in New Orleans in 2017!
Amy's Show Notes
We accidentally took several months off. We kept reading, though. And we missed you!
Amy wrote these notes.
I just finished Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series. Four friends in a retirement village solve murders. It sounds silly and simple and it can be, but it’s also at times scary and dark and sad and hilarious. I am pretty annoyed that the fifth book is not out yet, dammit.
Kate read Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers and Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man), both by Jesse Q. Sutanto. Vera is in her 60s. She owns a tea house. She is lonely and bored and nosey, and she’s just about as bossy as Kate when she thinks people need bossing.
I accidentally sort of caused Kate to make a mean face because I said that the Thursday Murder Club series was “not Jessica Fletcher,” but I said it not in an entirely positive way. Not negative! Respectful, but not excited. Luckily, we were not in the same physical space, so I was safe. Kate’s love of Jessica Fletcher is greater than her love for me.
In case you ever hang out with Kate, you’ll need to know about “Murder, She Wrote.” It’s a cozy detective series wherein Jessica Fletcher, played by Angela Lansbury, is a mystery novelist and also an older woman who goes around solving mysteries, looking wide-eyed and innocent but always finding the bad guy. She seemed old Amy’s Nana was a big fan and was exactly the same age as Angela Lansbury. The series ran from 1984 to 1996! That was so long ago! But J Fletch has staying power.
(Kate, please don’t be mad at me for calling her J Fletch.)
Wikipedia says there were some television films and two video games based on the show?? What the hell. And a bunch of novels that sound weird.
I also recommend Killers of a Certain Age and Kills Well with Others, both by Deanna Raybourn. Four women who have been spies for decades are forced to retire, but they have good reason to keep killing people. It’s fun.
We seem to be getting needed relaxation by reading the mystery-solving antics of older ladies. We just saw a meme that said, “Too old to be a plucky teen Chosen One getting a call to adventure, too young to be solving crimes in a retirement village.” So we’re preparing. When we are retired spies living a retirement village, we’ll be bossy and nosey and fix everything.
Kate read the poem, “How Lucky We Are That You Can’t Sell a Poem,” by Gregory Orr. Find it. You can read it in seconds, but you’ll have to read it several times just because you will.
Suggestion from me: The 5 Calls app is not a poem. But you can use it to fight darkness nonetheless. Find your representatives, issues you want to address, and scripts for phone calls. Or skip the script and read them a damn poem.
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