Topic: My Favorite Murder

Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark speak onstage during the 2025 iHeartPodcast Awards on March 10, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)

"My Favorite Murder," a girl-power trap

Andi Zeisler
"My Favorite Murder;" "Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows" by Balli Kaur Jaswal; "The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters" by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Wikimedia/Harper Collins)

A murder podcast helped me write again

Balli Kaur Jaswal
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Amateur detectives & the true crime boom

Gwenda Bond