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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at be Right.

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Speaker 2: If you have finished reading all the books that you

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Speaker 2: were giving for Christmas and you're looking for a new read,

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Speaker 2: Catherine Rains is with us now with some great suggestions.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Catherine morning.

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Speaker 3: How are you very good?

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Speaker 2: Very good?

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Speaker 3: Happy Year you too.

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Speaker 2: So what have you got for us today?

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Speaker 3: So? I've got One Dark Night by Hannah Rochelle. And

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Speaker 3: this is set and this very small English vision called Salcombe,

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Speaker 3: and it's nestled in the woods and there's a private

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Speaker 3: school there and it kind of has the sort of

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Speaker 3: adventurous spirits around the woods and some stories that float around.

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Speaker 3: And because of this, on the night of Halloween, many

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Speaker 3: of the young people and towns sneak away from their

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Speaker 3: homes to attend the party in the woods and costumes

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Speaker 3: are worn and jokes are played and everybody's having a

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Speaker 3: good time. But then that party ends in tragedy when

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Speaker 3: the body of a teenager Sarah is found the woods

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Speaker 3: after the party, and she attended the local exclusive school,

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Speaker 3: and the investigating detective Ben Chase has a daughter in

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Speaker 3: the same year, level Ali and his ex wife Rachel

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Speaker 3: is the student counselor, and there's plenty of suspects from

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Speaker 3: within the school and the local community, and there's this

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Speaker 3: whole web of lies and secrets, and the police are

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Speaker 3: desperate to find the killer. And then because of his

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Speaker 3: connections as the detective, because of his connections with the school,

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Speaker 3: he gets taken off the case. And there's lots of

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Speaker 3: twists and turns and lots of very unlikable characters, and

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Speaker 3: that Aerie Woods and The Halloween are a really good mix.

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Speaker 3: Along with that no shortage of very questionable characters makes

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Speaker 3: a very intriguing and good thriller. Read.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it does sound like a good thrill. I can

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Speaker 2: kind of see that playing out in the TV show already, Catherine, Well.

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Speaker 3: Look I can too. That kind of whole atmosphere and

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Speaker 3: Halloween sort of element to it leads itself to that.

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Speaker 2: Tell Me about the Wedding Party by Rebecca Heath.

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Speaker 3: This is another quite suspenseful and miss Eric thriller. And

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Speaker 3: this is set in the backdrop of an Australian seaside

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Speaker 3: town and it blends the past and the present through

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Speaker 3: these different perspectives of the characters. And Adele and Jason

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Speaker 3: are these childhood friends and have returned to their seaside

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Speaker 3: town to tie the knot. But it's not really a

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Speaker 3: celebration of which you kind of expect because Adele's first love, Olie,

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Speaker 3: tragically died there about twelve years ago, and his memory

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Speaker 3: as part of many of the guests' memories as well,

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Speaker 3: and among them is his mum, who's grieving and unstable,

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Speaker 3: and she adds this layer of tension am Ambiguity and

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Speaker 3: his sisters there and she takes us back in time

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Speaker 3: and she kind of reveals the parts of the tragic

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Speaker 3: past that the ramification through the present, and it moves

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Speaker 3: between the wedding and his death, and those alternative points

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Speaker 3: of views between Adele who's getting married and Melanie and

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Speaker 3: the present and so for Sophie in the past, and

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Speaker 3: somebody trying to savage the wedding and sabotage the wedding,

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Speaker 3: and lots of kind of immediate family members that are

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Speaker 3: doing some very weird things. And everybody at this wedding

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Speaker 3: has their own secrets and they don't and why they

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Speaker 3: don't want Jason and Adela Mary and she keeps finding

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Speaker 3: threatening messages and he keeps getting threatening texts and all

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Speaker 3: sorts of things start to go wrong, and that's really

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Speaker 3: just the beginning of where the Wedding Party starts. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: she's atmospheric thriller.

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Speaker 2: She loves an ensemble cast, really doesn't she, Rebecca Heath,

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Speaker 2: it must be very prolific. Wasn't that long ago we

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Speaker 2: were talking about the summer party and the dinner party.

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Speaker 3: No, no, it doesn't feel like that long ago. I

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Speaker 3: think she's sort of writing a book every seven or

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Speaker 3: eight months, which is pretty quick. But yeah, I like

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Speaker 3: the way that her kind of suspenseful and the atmospheric

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Speaker 3: tension that she manages to get in her novels is

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Speaker 3: very intriguing.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thanks so much, Catherine. Those two books that Catherine mentioned,

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Speaker 2: One Dark Night by Hannah Rachelle and also The Wedding

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Speaker 2: Party by Rebecca Heath.

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