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Speaker 1: You're listening to this Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: Newsbalk's E'DB twenty one to twelve. Our book reviewer is

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Speaker 2: Katherine Range. He's here with her picks for us this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Hey Catherine, Good morning Jack. So Daniel Silver's got a

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Speaker 2: new book, tell us about a death in Cornwall?

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Speaker 1: He does.

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Speaker 3: This is his twenty fourth one and he's retired, yes,

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Speaker 3: And in this gabrielle On has retired from the Israeli

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Speaker 3: intelligence stpwork, but of course, and he works now as

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Speaker 3: an art restorer and lives in Venice with his wife

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Speaker 3: and children. But of course, you know, being a good thriller,

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Speaker 3: he gets ameshed in install a tree Greed and Murder,

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Speaker 3: and he agrees in the start of this book to

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Speaker 3: go to this unveiling of a recently retrieved stolen self

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Speaker 3: portrait by Vincent van Gogo at a London gallery. And

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Speaker 3: while he's there is approached by a friend from his

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Speaker 3: very uncomfortable past, a guy called Detective Sergeant Timothy Peel,

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Speaker 3: and Peel wants to enlist his age in his aid

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Speaker 3: in investigating this murder of Charlotte Break. Who's this prominent

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Speaker 3: professor of art history from the University of Oxford, and

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Speaker 3: her brutal murder is being attributed to a serial killer,

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Speaker 3: but there are inconsistencies in what happened to her that

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Speaker 3: aren't known to the general public, and there's clues for

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Speaker 3: a reason to suggest that she may have been killed

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Speaker 3: by somebody else, and Gabrielle soon uncovers data that Charlotte

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Speaker 3: was searching for providence of a Nazi luted Picasso painting

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Speaker 3: worth more than a million dollars, and its ownership was

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Speaker 3: dated back to an acquisition by a French Jewish businessman

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Speaker 3: who ended up dying in our switch in nineteen forty four,

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Speaker 3: and his only daughter survived, who gave birth to a son,

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Speaker 3: a young man named Emmanuel, who also has been found dead.

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Speaker 3: And so Gabrielle's wondering if this is a coincidence, and

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Speaker 3: so he steps up a sting to recover this louted

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Speaker 3: Picasso and several characters. There's a wonderful woman Ingrid Johnson

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Speaker 3: who's a professional thief, and an assassin turn British offer

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Speaker 3: of Christopher Kelly, who've appeared in other books by Daniel Silver,

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Speaker 3: and so you get this theme of loyalty and betrayal

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Speaker 3: and greed and international politics and lots of character development

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Speaker 3: in this modern day problem of using art as a

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Speaker 3: means to launder money for the very rich and to

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Speaker 3: avoid taxation and the role of dark money and politics.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, it's a good read. And it's quite nice

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Speaker 3: that it's moved away from the intelligent network into the spycraft,

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Speaker 3: and in the spycraft into the art world. It makes

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Speaker 3: a bit of a change.

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Speaker 2: Very good. Okay, So that's Adethan Cornwall by Daniel Silver.

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Speaker 2: You've also read After Annie by Anna Kidlin.

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Speaker 3: So this is a very sad story. And Annie's a

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Speaker 3: young mother of four who dies very suddenly of a

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Speaker 3: brain aneurysm. And this happens in the first chapter of

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Speaker 3: the book. And Annie was a woman who appreciated the

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Speaker 3: simple pleasures in life. She loved her children and loved

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Speaker 3: the residents of the nursing home that she worked for.

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Speaker 3: And the book follows her family and her best friend

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Speaker 3: through the first year after their loss and how each

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Speaker 3: handles that loss in their own way. And Bill, her husband,

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Speaker 3: is completely blinded by grief and loses side of helping

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Speaker 3: his children and what they need, and thirteen year old Alexander,

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Speaker 3: who's the oldest child and though she's a mature of

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Speaker 3: her age, bears a lot more responsibility that she should

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Speaker 3: have to caring for the younger children, and is also

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Speaker 3: coping with a secret that her best friend is enduring.

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Speaker 3: And young eleven year old aunt sadness manifests itself in anger,

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Speaker 3: and the youngest boys are eight and six and they

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Speaker 3: just lost the lads who just want their mum to

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Speaker 3: come home, and so it certainly brings tears to the eyes.

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Speaker 3: And then her best friend Anne Marie, who had always

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Speaker 3: looked to any for support and guidance, finds herself falling

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Speaker 3: back into old habits and trying to maintain her very

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Speaker 3: hard thought sobriety. And it's not a complicated story, and

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Speaker 3: it's quite beautiful and how simple it is, and it

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Speaker 3: really resonates, and it's that testament to strength and love

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Speaker 3: and shows lots about family dynamics and struggles and that

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Speaker 3: real sense of grief and loss after losing their wife,

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Speaker 3: a mum and friend. You know, it also encapulates those

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Speaker 3: really awkward moments of grief and the quiet struggles, and

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Speaker 3: it was a very touching story and I guarantee you

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Speaker 3: you would need some isssues to.

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Speaker 2: Read the story, all right, that sounds really interesting though,

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Speaker 2: Thank you casther. And so That's after Annie by Anna

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Speaker 2: Quinlan Catherine s. Feirs book are Deathan Cornwall by Daniel Silver,

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Speaker 2: and both of those will be on the website of course.

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