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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 a be.

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Speaker 2: Katherine Rains has heard to read recommendations for us this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Kilder Catherine, Morning Jack. Okay, two blocks to talk through.

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Speaker 2: Let's begin with The White Crow, which is by Michael Robotham,

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Speaker 2: the second in his Filamina McCarthy series.

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Speaker 3: So, Filamina is the daughter of a notorious gangster who's

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Speaker 3: the leader of a local crime family. And she had

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Speaker 3: severed ties with her family when she became a police

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Speaker 3: constable in London, and I've had a bit of a

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Speaker 3: reconciliation or a bit of a truce when she married Henry,

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Speaker 3: who happens to be a fireman. But now it passes

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Speaker 3: about to Colyde and she's on patrol in the middle

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Speaker 3: of the night AND's on a three am food run

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Speaker 3: for her colleagues at the Kentish Town Police station and

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Speaker 3: she spots this child in pajamas wandering the street and

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Speaker 3: it turns out it's five year old Daisy kemp Low

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Speaker 3: and she says that she can't wake her mum, and

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Speaker 3: Filholmina goes to learn why, and then across town her

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Speaker 3: colleagues are called to a jewelry store Robbie robbery which

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Speaker 3: happens to net the thieves about four million pounds, and

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Speaker 3: the owner's been tied to a chair with a bomb

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Speaker 3: stretcher's chest. And there's a lot to suggest that Philamina's

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Speaker 3: family may be involved, and so before all the matters

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Speaker 3: are resolved, they're more deaths and extortion and black man

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Speaker 3: in abduction and along with this great cast of characters,

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Speaker 3: and there's lots of twists and turns and mister direction misdirection,

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Speaker 3: and it's a really good, brilliantly written crime fiction. And

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Speaker 3: Michael Robotam does this very well.

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Speaker 2: Nice Okay, cool, Yeah, he's yeah, got like the first

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Speaker 2: Philammine Macarthy saw the story, I know, had a lot

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Speaker 2: of praise, a lot of people absolutely love that. So

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Speaker 2: great that he's followed it up so quickly. So that's

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Speaker 2: The White Crow by Michael Robotham. Next up, This is

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Speaker 2: Not a Game a novel by Kellie Mullen.

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Speaker 3: So ADDIE's video game developer and she's having lots of

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Speaker 3: business and relationship conflicts and she gets this call from

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Speaker 3: her grandmother me asking her to attend a party on

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Speaker 3: Mechanic Island in Michigan. And her grandmother has been invited

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Speaker 3: to this charity auction party by a neighbor, a woman

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Speaker 3: called Jane Island, and she hates her, and there's a

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Speaker 3: blackmail demand that's come along with this party invitation, and

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Speaker 3: so she wants Addie to come along with her for

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Speaker 3: moral support, and so they attend and then their hostess, Jane,

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Speaker 3: turns up dead and there's a snowstorm that traps them

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Speaker 3: in the house, and Addie and her grandmother are trying

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Speaker 3: to team up to solve the murder themselves. And it's

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Speaker 3: one of those coziest locked in room mysteries. And the

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Speaker 3: house and guest party goes a really unique blend of

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Speaker 3: people that are weird. They're suspicious, sometimes delightful and other

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Speaker 3: times completely vile, and every character, of course, raises suspicion.

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Speaker 3: And the house is huge, and it has its own

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Speaker 3: secrets and secret passageways, and it's one of those perfect

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Speaker 3: who Done It books, and it's The book itself is

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Speaker 3: kind of atmospheric, and it's fast paced and gripping, and

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Speaker 3: there's plenty of humor in it, and it pulls inspiration

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Speaker 3: from the likes of those Golden age lock room mysteries.

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Speaker 3: Like Agatha Christie and it's perfect for curling up on

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Speaker 3: a Sunday afternoon and not doing too much, to be honest, bit.

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Speaker 2: Of escapism of a weekend. We love it. Okay, cool,

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Speaker 2: thank you. This is not a game. A novel by

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Speaker 2: Kelly Mullen. Catherine's first recommendation for us the White Crow

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Speaker 2: by Michael Robotham, and both of those will be up

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Speaker 2: on the news talks he'd be website. A couple of

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Speaker 2: people on the text just asking about the bird app

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Speaker 2: that mikeyrdly recommended this morning in our travel segment. It's

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Speaker 2: called Merlin Bird Merlin like the Wizard Merlin Bird, but

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Speaker 2: you can find all of Mike's app recommendations on the

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Speaker 2: website as well.

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