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

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Speaker 1: from NEWSTALKSTB.

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Speaker 2: Twenty to twelve one News Talks v You with Jack Tayne.

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Speaker 2: This morning, Captain Rains our book reviewers here with her

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Speaker 2: two picks for the long weekend to Catherine Morning Jack.

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Speaker 2: So let's begin with The Waiting by Michael Connelly.

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Speaker 3: So this is the sixth in a spin off series

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Speaker 3: he has about Renee Ballad, and it's a spin off

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Speaker 3: of the Harry Bosch stories. And Harry makes an appearance

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Speaker 3: in this and Rene's a volunteer in the in the

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Speaker 3: LA Department's open so open unsolved unit, and Harry's now

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Speaker 3: in his seventies and he's dealing with some serious health issues,

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Speaker 3: but him and Ballad are still friends. And the book

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Speaker 3: also brings in Bosher's daughter, Maddie, wo's an LAPD officer.

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Speaker 3: And in The Waiting there are three major investigations at play,

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Speaker 3: beginning with when Rene's out surfing and she returns to

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Speaker 3: her car and discovers her department badge, gun, and ID

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Speaker 3: card have been stolen while she's been out on the water,

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Speaker 3: and that presents all sorts of problems for her. She'll

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Speaker 3: take serious heat if she reports the theft, and so

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Speaker 3: she decides that there's only one option, and that's to

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Speaker 3: turn to Harry to help her track down her valuables

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Speaker 3: and catch the guy who took them. And at the

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Speaker 3: same time, the open unsolved unit has uncovered this fresh

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Speaker 3: evidence suggesting that a long dominant serial killer, a guy

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Speaker 3: called the Pillowcase rapist, could be a superior court judge.

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Speaker 3: And of course that case requires some very delicate handling

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Speaker 3: and will put her unit in the whole department, right

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Speaker 3: in the spotlight. And then Harry's daughter, Maddie, who's a

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Speaker 3: patrol officer as I mentioned, joins the team after stumbling

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Speaker 3: on some explosive evidence relating to this black Dahlia killing

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Speaker 3: back in nineteen forty seven. And it's one of the

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Speaker 3: most famous unsolved bidders in the history of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: So you get all of these investigations going on and

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Speaker 3: all of these things going in, these subplots and investigations,

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Speaker 3: and it's really vintage Colonie with those great subplots and

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Speaker 3: lots of suspense and the stories all tying together. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: he takes you deep in and it's a read of

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Speaker 3: course from Michael colony.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, of course. Okay, that's The Waiting by

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Speaker 2: Michael Thornley. Next up The House We Grew Up In

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Speaker 2: by Lisa Juwele.

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Speaker 3: So this follows the Bird family through the years and

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Speaker 3: alluding to why they might be also estranged with each other.

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Speaker 3: And it's set partially in the present day and partially

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Speaker 3: in the past and spans thirty years, and those intervening

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Speaker 3: years are told on alternative chapters by members of the

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Speaker 3: Bird family, and each are fighting their own demons to

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Speaker 3: build up this picture of the past. And then the

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Speaker 3: first time you go right back to the beginning of

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Speaker 3: their story, to this very sunny Easter Sunday in nineteen

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Speaker 3: eighty one, this Cotsweld College, full of love and laughter,

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Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden you're in the present

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Speaker 3: day where they're back together again for the first time

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Speaker 3: in years, and there's the guilt and separation and bitterness

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Speaker 3: and you know what tore them apart in this heartbreak

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Speaker 3: and secrets. And the story mainly follows the mother, Lorelei

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Speaker 3: and her daughter Megan Bird the most and laure in

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Speaker 3: her children's eyes, was full of love and surprises, but

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Speaker 3: there's lots of red flags in the air, so she

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Speaker 3: wants to keep every single piece of her children's art,

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Speaker 3: and then she keeps items that are broken and useless,

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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, her collections become piles of

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Speaker 3: stuff and more stuff, and the house that they grew

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Speaker 3: up and is no longer the house that they remember.

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Speaker 3: And is Meghan, who tries to be the exact opposite

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Speaker 3: of her mum, who hoards, and she lives in this

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Speaker 3: home that's spotless, without any clatteral mess. And then there's Death,

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Speaker 3: who's often invisible as the middle daughter, and she's on

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Speaker 3: this constant journey to find herself. And there's a study

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Speaker 3: and how tragedy affects everyone differently and causes these ripple

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Speaker 3: effects that take years to recover from. And so you

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Speaker 3: have the story that deals with death and trauma and

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Speaker 3: mental illness, but most of all about relationships and about

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Speaker 3: family and what ties them all together.

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Speaker 2: Oh super okay, that sounds really good, Thank you very much, Catherine.

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Speaker 2: That's The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Juwell,

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Speaker 2: Catherine's first book. The latest one from Michael Connolly is

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Speaker 2: The Waiting And if you're wondering about either of those,

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Speaker 2: all of the information about those books will be at Newstorks.

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Speaker 2: He'd b dot co dot nz Ford slash Jack.

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