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

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 24 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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0:00.0	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
0:05.0	Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.
0:09.0	Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org
0:12.6	slash events.
0:13.6	From W.B. E. Z Chicago. I'm Greta Johnson and this is the
0:20.5	Nurdette Book Club. It's just like a regular book club, except sometimes the author stops by.
0:25.0	This month, we thought we would lean into the 2020 mood and choose a very dark and creepy murder mystery. It's actually our first mystery.
0:38.0	Our book this month is Tana French's The Searcher.
0:40.0	It's a Stranger in a Strange Land story about a retired Chicago police officer named
0:44.9	Cal who moves to a ramshackle cabin in the middle of nowhere in rural Ireland. Before long,
0:50.7	a local kid asks him for help solving the mystery around a brother who disappeared.
0:55.0	I'm going to have a super spoilery conversation about this book with a separate panel later
1:01.8	this month.
1:02.8	So just know, this conversation with Tana
1:05.0	is going to be as spoiler free as possible.
1:07.8	Tana is the award-winning author of eight mystery novels,
1:10.9	including The Searchers, which came out in October.
1:13.5	Tana, welcome to Nurdette.
1:15.3	Thank you so much for having me on.
1:17.8	It's great to be here.
1:19.2	Oh, I am such a huge fan of all of your books, like whenever anyone hasn't read you and I get to
1:25.2	hand one to them it's such an exciting experience for me so I'm just so honored and
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