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Southern Noir Book Club | True Crime Trivia with Michelle Tooker

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Todd Kohlhepp wrote a five-star review: “It’s blacker than my soul.”

1. Sirens features a Raven’s Reviews special built around Michelle Tooker’s True Crime Trivia books and a quiz from book three. 2. Michelle Tooker is the guest, Mandy is co-hosting, and Rick Rollins is named as the host and game master of I Crit You Not in the promo. 3. The episode asks what a true-crime trivia series can do beyond asking questions, including whether it can surface overlooked cases and missing persons. 4. Tooker says her interest in true crime started with her mother telling her about the man with the hook, Son of Sam, and Ted Bundy. 5. She adds a family story about her mother living across the street from a circus clown who later murdered his girlfriend. 6. Tooker says she became more involved professionally through research work for True Crime BS, which focuses on Israel Keyes. 7. She explains that she started collecting trivia questions in 2020 and committed to the series in 2021. 8. Tooker says the series now contains 900 questions across three books, with the third book releasing on April 30. 9. She describes the books as a way to make readers click between questions and answers on Kindle and play along at home. 10. Tooker says she deliberately mixed categories so the questions would not all be about serial killers or repetitive case facts. 11. She says she likes using trivia to teach people something while keeping the material engaging. 12. She names the heist chapter from volume one as a reader favorite because heist cases have unusual details and strong stories. 13. Tooker says she uses TikTok to promote book three, post case updates, and sometimes add questions tied to current events. 14. She says some of her later questions are harder because she had to dig deeper for less commonly known material. 15. The quiz includes Todd Kohlhepp’s online product reviews, including a five-star shovel review and a knife review. 16. Another question covers Fred West running over a child in 1965 while driving a Mr. Whippy ice cream truck in Glasgow. 17. The game also includes a 1985 Washington, D.C. sting operation that used Super Bowl tickets to lure people with warrants to a party. 18. The tone stays conversational and game-like, with Raven and Mandy answering live while Tooker adds short case explanations after each reveal. 19. Listeners who like true-crime trivia, case details, and missing-person discussions will likely enjoy this episode. 20. Listeners who want a long-form narrative case without quiz interruptions may skip it.

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A trivia detour that keeps true crime curious, chatty, and lightly competitive.

Sirens takes a short detour from its usual run with a Raven's Reviews episode built around a guest-led trivia game. Raven and Mandy keep the pace moving through true crime questions, book blurbs, and steady back-and-forth, with the conversation landing in a curious, playful…

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