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

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Speaker 1: from news Talks at be.

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Speaker 2: Joe Nisbo is back with a brand new thriller. This

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Speaker 2: is a standalone, so you don't need to have read

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Speaker 2: previous ones to keep up with the storyline. It's called

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Speaker 2: Wolf Hour. Our book reviewer Katherine Rains is here with

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Speaker 2: her thoughts on it. What do you reckon? Catherine?

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Speaker 3: Look, it's good as you say. Joanisbo's kind of a

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Speaker 3: very prolific author. He's a Norwegian author, but Wolf In

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Speaker 3: the standalone is actually set in America, or well actually

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Speaker 3: precisely in Minneapolis, and it's got. While the setting's not Norwegian,

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Speaker 3: it's kind of retains many of his trademarks. And it

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Speaker 3: starts in twenty sixteen, and it revolves around the serial

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Speaker 3: killer and a disgraced detective, a guy called Bob As.

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Speaker 3: And Detective As is an interesting guy's a bit of

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Speaker 3: an anti hero. He's a rebel, he's a bit morally gray,

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Speaker 3: and he has a good and healthy disregard for rules.

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Speaker 3: But he's also struggling in his personal life to come

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Speaker 3: to terms with the loss of his daughter and the

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Speaker 3: breakdown of his marriage. And so he's making lots of

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Speaker 3: wrong choices in life and attempts to find solutions. At

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Speaker 3: the same time, there's this very sophisticated killer on the

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Speaker 3: Prowler guy called Thomas Gomez, and you know, all the

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Speaker 3: signs are pointing towards him when they thought it actually

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Speaker 3: disappeared a number of years ago. And oz Dees really

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Speaker 3: wants to solve this particular case and he keeps working

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Speaker 3: on it, but he's taken off and suspended from duty

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Speaker 3: and everything seems to be going on. And then there's

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Speaker 3: the sniper who's on a mission of revenge, but he

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Speaker 3: also wants to highlight the problem with America's very lacks

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Speaker 3: gun controls. So you flip between these third person viewpoints

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Speaker 3: and Bob Ohs and several other characters in the first

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Speaker 3: person viewpoint of the Murderer, which is a really interesting

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Speaker 3: way to tell the story, and it's clever, and it

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Speaker 3: didn't end how I would expect it, And it's a

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Speaker 3: really interesting mix this this book. It's a bit political,

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Speaker 3: it's a bit gory, it's a bit sad in a

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Speaker 3: really weird way. It's quite heartwarming as well. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: it does retain those real Nesbo characteristics and how he

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Speaker 3: tells a story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, great, that sounds fantastic. So that's Wolf Ower

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Speaker 2: by Joan Nisbo. You've also read The Wasp Trap by

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Speaker 2: Mark Edwards.

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Speaker 3: So this is a story of six friends, Will who

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Speaker 3: tells most of the story, Sophie Rohan, Theo, Georgia, and

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Speaker 3: Lily and they meet up after twenty five years to

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Speaker 3: celebrate the life of their former professor, a guy called

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Speaker 3: Sebastian Marlow, and set in two thousand and four. They

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Speaker 3: meet up at Theo and Georgina's very beautiful house and

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Speaker 3: they realize that I've got a lot of catching up

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Speaker 3: to do because they haven't seen each other since nineteen

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Speaker 3: ninety nine, and back in ninety nine they created this

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Speaker 3: dating website together, but they also create within this website,

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Speaker 3: created this test to identify psychopaths, and this questionnaire that

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Speaker 3: they developed has turned into a tool known as the

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Speaker 3: Wasp Trap. But as their night progresses in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 3: they found themselves in this situation being held at gunpoint,

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Speaker 3: and they are informed that they must share their deepest

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Speaker 3: and dark secrets to the group or be picked off

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Speaker 3: one by one. And as they kind of scramble, the

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Speaker 3: book goes back and forth to the past and the

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Speaker 3: present day, and their predicament comes very dire, and it's

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Speaker 3: dark and it's clever and it's suspenseful and you just

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Speaker 3: kind of wonder how well I know each other and

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Speaker 3: you kind of chills down your spine and you've got

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Speaker 3: no idea what's coming next. And it's that real perfect

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Speaker 3: lock room mystery with characters all holding lots of secrets

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Speaker 3: of their own right.

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Speaker 2: That sounds amazing cool. Okay, so there's the Wasp Trap.

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Speaker 2: Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards. Catherine's first book was Wolf

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Speaker 2: Ower by Joanie's By, and both of those will be

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Speaker 2: on the News talk 'DB website. Thank you Catherine.

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