1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,693 Speaker 1: from News Talks at. 3 00:00:11,653 --> 00:00:15,653 Speaker 2: Be Katherine Rain's, our book reviewer, has her two picks 4 00:00:15,693 --> 00:00:18,493 Speaker 2: for us this weekend. Good Morning, Catherine. 5 00:00:18,333 --> 00:00:18,933 Speaker 3: Morning Jack. 6 00:00:19,173 --> 00:00:22,413 Speaker 2: So let us begin with Such a Perfect Family by 7 00:00:22,493 --> 00:00:26,053 Speaker 2: Naralini Singh. 8 00:00:24,653 --> 00:00:27,813 Speaker 3: So tavish Vanni. He's a good looking man and he 9 00:00:28,613 --> 00:00:31,013 Speaker 3: loves to live the good life, and he likes older woman, 10 00:00:31,093 --> 00:00:35,253 Speaker 3: especially older woman with money. And he's had three relationships 11 00:00:35,293 --> 00:00:38,293 Speaker 3: that are like that, and he's got money and condos 12 00:00:38,333 --> 00:00:41,333 Speaker 3: and other things from these relationships. But all these women 13 00:00:41,453 --> 00:00:46,453 Speaker 3: have died. And despite this way he's got this dubious wealth, 14 00:00:46,533 --> 00:00:49,413 Speaker 3: he loses it all at the gambling table just as quickly. 15 00:00:49,453 --> 00:00:53,133 Speaker 3: So he's a flawed character, shall we say. And then 16 00:00:53,133 --> 00:00:55,333 Speaker 3: he meets Dea and it's love at first sight and 17 00:00:55,373 --> 00:00:58,053 Speaker 3: they have this Vegas wedding and they return to New Zealand, 18 00:00:58,093 --> 00:01:02,893 Speaker 3: and this picture perfect future disappears almost as quickly when 19 00:01:02,933 --> 00:01:05,573 Speaker 3: this house fire leaves her in a coma and her 20 00:01:05,613 --> 00:01:08,613 Speaker 3: wealthy family gone. So it's only Da and her sister 21 00:01:08,653 --> 00:01:11,773 Speaker 3: in law are the only survivors of what happens. And 22 00:01:11,813 --> 00:01:14,613 Speaker 3: of course Tavishi comes to the logical suspect, especially when 23 00:01:14,653 --> 00:01:17,813 Speaker 3: the cops start to look into his background in these 24 00:01:17,853 --> 00:01:21,853 Speaker 3: wealthy women back in La and with the two women 25 00:01:21,973 --> 00:01:24,453 Speaker 3: in Comas, there's no one there to back up his 26 00:01:24,533 --> 00:01:28,373 Speaker 3: story or tell his side, and he's trying to discover who, 27 00:01:28,613 --> 00:01:31,773 Speaker 3: you know, who was behind this and who would commit 28 00:01:31,813 --> 00:01:34,813 Speaker 3: such a crime. And so you alternate between his what 29 00:01:34,893 --> 00:01:37,733 Speaker 3: he's telling, his point of view, and this LA cop 30 00:01:37,813 --> 00:01:41,813 Speaker 3: who is just absolutely obsessed with trying to find out 31 00:01:42,213 --> 00:01:45,333 Speaker 3: how he's done what he's done, and he's desperately trying 32 00:01:45,333 --> 00:01:47,333 Speaker 3: to work out what happened. And so you get this 33 00:01:47,493 --> 00:01:50,293 Speaker 3: past and present and all of these secrets that blend together, 34 00:01:50,373 --> 00:01:54,373 Speaker 3: and you get a really good psychological domestic thriller with 35 00:01:54,453 --> 00:01:57,333 Speaker 3: lots and lots of hidden secrets as you uncover them. 36 00:01:57,533 --> 00:02:01,253 Speaker 2: Superb okay, Such a Perfect Family by Nalini Sinh. Next 37 00:02:01,333 --> 00:02:03,973 Speaker 2: up the First Law of the Bush by Jeff Parks. 38 00:02:04,813 --> 00:02:07,253 Speaker 3: So this is set in small town New Zealand in 39 00:02:07,293 --> 00:02:11,693 Speaker 3: the nineteen nineties and Bill Dickinson, who you meet dies 40 00:02:11,773 --> 00:02:14,893 Speaker 3: in the first chapter. He fell to his death from 41 00:02:14,973 --> 00:02:19,213 Speaker 3: a viaduct he was repairing, and there's no known explanation, 42 00:02:19,413 --> 00:02:22,573 Speaker 3: and his coworkers that is worth have no idea what happened, 43 00:02:23,213 --> 00:02:25,653 Speaker 3: and then the story a year later, you meet Carol, 44 00:02:25,773 --> 00:02:28,973 Speaker 3: his widow, and she's trying to work out what's going on, 45 00:02:29,093 --> 00:02:31,333 Speaker 3: and so she ends up seeking the help of a 46 00:02:31,333 --> 00:02:33,853 Speaker 3: local lawyer not only to kind of work out what happened, 47 00:02:34,133 --> 00:02:36,733 Speaker 3: but actually because the railways are refusing to pay her 48 00:02:36,933 --> 00:02:39,693 Speaker 3: compensation after the fools decided that it was an accident. 49 00:02:40,093 --> 00:02:44,573 Speaker 3: And Ryan agrees to help and he tries to uncover 50 00:02:44,733 --> 00:02:48,613 Speaker 3: what's going on, and the local police sergeant is kind 51 00:02:48,613 --> 00:02:51,533 Speaker 3: of says no, what says it happened It was the 52 00:02:51,573 --> 00:02:54,573 Speaker 3: result of his own actions, but there's something in the 53 00:02:54,573 --> 00:02:56,893 Speaker 3: back of his mind about the things that just don't 54 00:02:56,933 --> 00:02:59,333 Speaker 3: seem quite right. And he's got a friend, a guy, 55 00:02:59,453 --> 00:03:02,853 Speaker 3: Senior Constable Lance Peterson, who's also beginning to suspect that 56 00:03:03,293 --> 00:03:06,333 Speaker 3: people are being protected and there's secrets to be uncover 57 00:03:06,773 --> 00:03:09,733 Speaker 3: and people are really afraid to talk. And you get 58 00:03:09,733 --> 00:03:13,133 Speaker 3: these perspectives between several different characters, which adds to that 59 00:03:13,293 --> 00:03:17,253 Speaker 3: intrigue and mystery as the story builds, and yeah, it 60 00:03:17,573 --> 00:03:20,173 Speaker 3: kind of builds in this very sort of uncomfortable and 61 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:23,093 Speaker 3: dark way, and it makes it quite tense, and you've 62 00:03:23,133 --> 00:03:26,133 Speaker 3: got all these small town secrets and stories that play 63 00:03:26,133 --> 00:03:29,173 Speaker 3: out with this creeping tension, and it's it's one of 64 00:03:29,173 --> 00:03:31,213 Speaker 3: those books that you just want to keep turning the pages. 65 00:03:31,573 --> 00:03:34,173 Speaker 2: Superb Okay, So that's the first Law of the Bush 66 00:03:34,413 --> 00:03:37,053 Speaker 2: by Jeff Parks, and Catherine's first book was Such a 67 00:03:37,133 --> 00:03:40,413 Speaker 2: Perfect Family by Nalini Singh, and both of those titles 68 00:03:40,893 --> 00:03:42,493 Speaker 2: will be up on our show page on the News 69 00:03:42,533 --> 00:03:43,613 Speaker 2: Talk's EDB websites. 70 00:03:45,093 --> 00:03:48,213 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live 71 00:03:48,293 --> 00:03:51,613 Speaker 1: to Newstalk ZEDB from nine am Saturday, or follow the 72 00:03:51,613 --> 00:03:53,093 Speaker 1: podcast on iHeartRadio