Our book club panel is back to dig into Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka. The novel twists a stereotypical crime story to make us question our cultural obsession with the genre.

Two of our favorite readers join us once again! MJ Franklin is an editor at The New York Times Book Review and Traci Thomas is the host of The Stacks podcast.

Spoiler alert! We do not hold back on spilling plot points in this conversation. If you have yet to read the book, you can hear more about it by listening to our earlier, spoiler-free conversation with author Danya Kukafka. Don’t forget to come back here once you’re finished reading!