Plot Twist explores the dark side of the publishing world; the shocking crimes committed by authors, editors, agents, and literary figures.
From fraud and obsession to revenge and murder, each episode investigates a real crime within the publishing industry. We break down what happened, why it happened, and what it reveals about the unique culture of books and writers.
If you love true crime and books, this is the podcast that connects them.
Because the most compelling mysteries aren't always fiction.
He handled the money. He paid the authors. He managed the accounts.
For seven years, nobody questioned him.
Between 2011 and 2018, a trusted bookkeeper at one of New York's most storied literary agencies quietly transferred $3.4 million out of the accounts he managed and into his own. His victims included the author of Fight Club, the estate of the man who wrote The Godfather, and the heirs of some of the most celebrated names in American literature.
He didn't hack anything. He didn't forge anything. He just moved the money and changed the numbers.
And when it finally came apart, it didn't just cost his victims their royalties. It took a 49-year-old institution down with it.
This week on Plot Twist, listen in as we discuss the quiet crime that killed a literary legend.
4 Aug 2026
ICYMI - Carnegie Library: The 25 Year Long Heist
For 25 years, one of Pittsburgh's most trusted librarians walked into one of the most secure rooms in the city — and walked back out with $8 million worth of history tucked under his arm.
No disguises. No accomplices with technical skills. No elaborate plan.
Just a man, a manila folder, and a little red stamp.
This week on Plot Twist, we go inside the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh — and the slow-motion heist that nobody noticed until it was almost too late.
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28 Jul 2026
Book Recs: I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
This week, we're trying something a little different with a true crime book recommendation.
Before true crime was a cultural phenomenon, before the podcasts and Netflix documentaries, Michelle McNamara was already there. Writing obsessively. Researching relentlessly. Chasing a killer no one had named yet.
She called him the Golden State Killer. And she spent years trying to find him.
She never got to see what happened next.
This week on Plot Twist, we're stepping back from the case files to talk about the woman behind one of the most important true crime books ever written and why her story matters just as much as the one she was telling.
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21 Jul 2026
Filippo Bernardini: The Spine Collector
Someone was stealing manuscripts. Not published books... unpublished ones. Unreleased novels from Margaret Atwood, Sally Rooney, a Pulitzer Prize winner. Works that didn't exist yet, in anyone's hands but the author's.
For five years, nobody knew who it was. Or how they were doing it.
The method turned out to be almost embarrassingly simple. And the motive? Even stranger than anyone expected.
This week on Plot Twist, we go inside the publishing industry's most bizarre crime and the one question that nobody could quite agree on an answer to: what exactly did the Spine Collector want?
14 Jul 2026
Carnegie Library: The 25 Year Long Heist
For 25 years, one of Pittsburgh's most trusted librarians walked into one of the most secure rooms in the city — and walked back out with $8 million worth of history tucked under his arm.
No disguises. No accomplices with technical skills. No elaborate plan.
Just a man, a manila folder, and a little red stamp.
This week on Plot Twist, we go inside the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh — and the slow-motion heist that nobody noticed until it was almost too late.
Listen to Plot Twist wherever you get your podcasts.
#PlotTwist #TrueCrime #BookCrime #CarnegieLibrary #RareBooks #LibraryHeist #LiteraryCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #BookTok #PodcastRecommendation #NewPodcast #BooksAndCrime #CulturalTheft #HeistStory #PittsburghHistory #BookmarkProductions #BecauseBooksMatter
7 Jul 2026
Kouri Richins: The Author of Grief
She wrote a children's book to help her kids cope with losing their father.
She was the one who killed him.
In March 2023, Utah mom Kouri Richins published Are You With Me? — a tender picture book about a little boy searching for signs of his late father. She appeared on local television, soft-spoken and composed, talking about grief and healing and the power of a bedtime story.
One month later, she was arrested for murder.
This week on Plot Twist, we dig into one of the most disturbing true crime cases in recent memory — a story of fentanyl, financial ruin, a secret affair, and a children's book that may have been the most calculated move of all. We'll take you inside the marriage that was quietly falling apart, the investigation that took years to build, and the trial that left a courtroom speechless.
Three little boys lost their father. What they didn't know — what none of us knew — was who really took him.
In this episode: The real estate empire built on debt. The secret boyfriend. The housekeeper who became the prosecution's star witness. The internet searches prosecutors say prove everything. And the children's grief book at the centre of it all.
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Content Note: This episode discusses the murder of Eric Richins, fentanyl poisoning, and includes victim impact statements from minor children. Listener discretion is advised.
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30 Jun 2026
Alaric Hunt: Murderer, Arsonist, Jewelry Thief, Award Winning Author
A robbery. A fire. A life lost for $200. Two brothers went to prison — and one of them wrote a great book. When his secret came to light, the publishing world was forced to ask a question they weren't ready for: can talent exist without redemption? And does it even matter?
This week on Plot Twist.
23 Jun 2026
Nancy Brophy: How to Murder Your Husband
Chef and instructor Daniel Brophy was shot twice at close range on June 2, 2018, at the Oregon Culinary Institute, where he taught, and investigators ultimately arrested his wife, romance suspense writer Nancy Crampton Brophy, who had previously written an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband.”
KGW News - Nancy Brophy Cross Examination: https://www.youtube.com/live/SwRF8ddWWbg?si=ATs52eFTAyqybzQH (https://www.youtube.com/live/SwRF8ddWWbg?si=ATs52eFTAyqybzQH)
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16 Jun 2026
Anne Perry: The Mystery Writer Who Hid a Murder
This episode of Plot Twist tells the story of bestselling mystery author Anne Perry, born Juliet Hulme in 1938, whose teenage past was exposed in 1994. After a childhood marked by tuberculosis, isolation, and repeated illness, Juliet formed an intense bond with Pauline Parker in New Zealand. When Juliet’s family planned to return to England and Pauline was refused permission to join them, the girls committed a shocking act. Convicted and imprisoned, Juliet reinvented herself as Anne Perry in the UK, becoming a religious, award-winning writer of Victorian detective series centered on themes of amnesia and redemption. Her secret unraveled after a surprising connection to the film Lord of the Rings.
Plot Twist is produced by Book Mark Productions and hosted by Mark Brooks.
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YouTube: @bookmarkprod
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