372 Pages #197 – 2025 Cozy Book Buffet

Thanks to everyone who supported the podcast on Patreon this year. Join the fun and get a whole bunch of stuff you can’t hear anywhere else: https://patreon.com/372pages Ok, let’s tally up the cozy: Christmas beanies. Hot chocolate. Candy canes. Matching sweaters with cute doggo. Sentient owl. Butts. Poop. Murdered senior — all right, look! Maybe … Continue reading "372 Pages #198 – Owl Be Home for Christmas – Ep 1 – Julius Pringle Put Cherries in His Wife’s Christmas Cake, Obviously!!"

Obviously you’re all thinking, “Donald Sobel wrote an Encyclopedia Brown Mystery about the 1993 Georgia Satellites song?! Weird. But very intriguing!” Sadly, no. This was written eight years prior to its release. The solution is utter madness.

We went over some of the thousands and thousands of cozy mysteries out there before deciding on OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS as our 2025 cozy. Revisit the contenders! Assignment: Read thru Chapter 8

Support the podcast on Patreon, where you can hear our latest 280 Mysteries with special guest Dan Deacon, and be the first to learn what book is next! https://patreon.com/372pages This is it, the final episode of Dan Brown’s Deception Point, a book so dumb it raises (lowers?) the level at which a 372 book can … Continue reading "372 Pages #196 – Deception Point Ep 4 – Corky Coats Himself in His Own WHAT?!*"

Pigs are stolen. Gooses killed, gutted, de-feathered, roasted over spits and eaten by drifters. And, evidently, dogs are wounded. Idaville’s an odd place. Can Mike crack the case?! Listen to the complete 280 Mysteries archive on our Patreon! patreon.com/372pages

Support the podcast on Patreon where you get every episode a week early, plus access to every 280 Mysteries episode! https://patreon.com/372pages Find out how this book compares to the works of Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf and Rush. And while you’re at it, follow the exploits of Hot Sexton and her father Senator Sexton Sedgewick. Does triple … Continue reading "372 Pages #195 – Deception Point Ep 3 – Conor Admits to Performing Rocket Man!"

Listen to the complete 280 Mysteries archive, including our brand new episode with Joel McHale, only on the 372 Pages Patreon! https://patreon.com/372pages Watch goose* is a thing, everyone. Seriously. We don’t like it anymore than you do, but it’s a thing. Mike tries to crack the case. *”Guard goose” would also be an accepted term.

Support the podcast on Patreon where you can hear our latest 280 Mysteries episode with special guest JOEL MCHALE! patreon.com/372pages Courvoisier-sipping senator Sedgewick Sexton; the hideous, grotesque, smoke-spewing, long-limbed inhuman creature Marjorie Tench; and Deltas One, Two and Three are just a few of the characters discussed in this episode. So much happens. So many … Continue reading "372 Pages #194 – Deception Point Ep 2 – Ice Bullets, Snifters and Puggish Smiles!"

Listen to the entire 280 Mysteries archive on our patreon! patreon.com/372pages For once, once, it’s a hitchhiker that’s hungry and not a damn hippo! Anyway, Conor throws Donald J. Sobel’s mystery at Mike and Mike attempts to hit it out of the park. Does he succeed? You’ll have to listen.

Support the podcast on Patreon and get every episode a week free plus all the other stuff we don’t post anywhere else! patreon.com/372pages Dan Brown is back! The author of Digital Fortress (and, okay, if I have to mention it, The Da Vinci Code) is typing up words and phrases and clauses as fast as … Continue reading "372 Pages #193 – Deception Point Ep 1 – Save Your Meal of Horse Till AFTER You Read About M. Tench"