Ep 103: Kara Thomas

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) Crohn’s disease Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich CLUE (board game) Law & Order 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 Casey Anthony Zodiac (movie) Hidden Figures (movie) Josh Mankiewicz from Dateline Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo Slender Man The Craft (movie)   The Cheerleaders (Kara’s next book) The Daily Beast article about Dryden, NY