S21 Ep53: The Library After Dark: Death Dealt at the Daedalus w/Ande Pliego

S21 Ep53: The Library After Dark: Death Dealt at the Daedalus w/Ande Pliego

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May 5, 2026 · 2h 21m · Season 21 · Episode 53

About this episode

Ande Pliego discusses her novel involving a haunted library and a murder mystery.

True Crime Tuesday presents: The Library After Dark: Death Dealt at the Daedalus with Author, Ande Pliego Not all fairytales were meant for children. Aria Stokes is finally feeling settled—she lives in a tiny New York apartment, works as a bookseller at a local shop, and has even taken a leap of faith in love by indulging her attraction to bookstore regular Jasper. And he seems to already know her so well. As a Valentine’s Day surprise, Jasper gets the two of them tickets to an exclusive, after-dark tour of the Daedalus Library—the grandiose establishment famed for its immersive genre-based reading rooms and, more notoriously, its rumored hauntings. While Aria normally loves all things ghastly, this place holds more dark secrets than she’d prefer Jasper to know. Like that the last time she was here, she left a body behind. But when the automatic-door entry malfunctions and Aria, Jasper, and the five other people in their tour group become trapped in the library, they are forced to venture through the storied rooms and hidden passageways of the Daedalus in search of escape . . . and Aria quite literally has nowhere to hide from the shadows of her past. Then the group learns…

People in this episode

Host: Darkness Radio

Guest: Ande Pliego

Topics covered

  • true crime
  • mystery
  • hauntings
  • literature
  • suspense

Keywords

  • Daedalus Library
  • Ande Pliego
  • true crime
  • murder mystery
  • hauntings
  • suspense
  • literature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Daedalus Library, True Crime Tuesday

Places: New York

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