Book Club: Tana French Talks About Her New Mystery Novel, ‘The Searcher’

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Our December Book Club pick is our first murder mystery! It's Tana French’s latest book, The Searcher. In it, a retired Chicago police officer moves to a small town in Western Ireland for a bit of peace and quiet, only to get drawn back into his old ways when a local boy asks for help solving the mystery of his brother’s disappearance.

Today's episode is a spoiler-free conversation with Tana French. Check it out, check out The Searcher, then come back in two weeks for a panel discussion that breaks it all down. We want to hear from you too! Record your take on The Searcher and email the audio file to [email protected] by Thursday, Dec. 17.

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0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
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0:32.3	From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and this is the Nerdette Book Club. It's just like a
0:37.3	regular book club, except sometimes the author stops by. This month, we thought easy Chicago. I'm Greta Johnson, and this is the Nerdette Book Club. It's just like a regular
0:37.6	book club, except sometimes the author stops by. This month, we thought we would lean into the 2020
0:43.2	mood and choose a very dark and creepy murder mystery. It's actually our first mystery.
0:53.2	Our book this month is Tana French's The Searcher.
0:56.2	It's a stranger in a strange land story about a retired Chicago police officer named Cal
1:00.8	who moves to a ramshackle cabin in the middle of nowhere in rural Ireland.
1:05.5	Before long, a local kid asks him for help solving the mystery around a brother who disappeared.
1:12.5	I'm going to have a super-spoilery conversation about this book with a separate panel later this
1:17.5	month. So just know, this conversation with Tana is going to be as spoiler-free as possible.
1:23.2	Tana is the award-winning author of eight mystery novels, including The Searcher, which came out in October.
1:29.0	Tana, welcome to Nuredette.
1:31.5	Thank you so much for having me on. It's great to be here.
1:34.7	I am such a huge fan of all of your books.
1:38.3	Like whenever anyone hasn't read you and I get to hand one to them, it's such an exciting experience for me.
1:43.5	So I'm just so honored and delighted to be able to chat with you them. It's such an exciting experience for me. So I'm just so
1:44.6	honored and delighted to be able to chat with you today. Thank you so much. So I have a number
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