Ep 628 - The Witch Elm, by Tana French

Overdue

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The Witch Elm has Dublin, and it has murder, and it has a squad of detectives, but despite all that it is not a book in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series. This riff on her classic crime novel formula focuses instead on some of the suspects, namely Toby Hennessey, who doesn’t know if he can’t remember things because of head trauma or because for most of his life he’s been able to get by without acknowledging the existence of systemic problems.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:04.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:11.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:15.6	Plus these are books you should have read by now. Oh, uh, uh,
0:24.0	uh, uh, Hey everybody
0:42.5	Welcome to Overdo. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew
0:48.3	And welcome to 2024 again.
0:52.4	Welcome back. Everybody's 2024 again.
0:53.0	Welcome back.
0:54.0	Everybody's sick.
0:55.0	We're several weeks into what billboards in my neighborhood refer to as six season.
1:01.0	I hate it.
1:02.0	New Year, new you, you're going to be sick all the time.
1:05.0	Yep.
1:06.0	There's a lot of, there's like hospital systems in our area that talk about getting prepped for six season.
1:12.0	And I just don't like it. I mean you could turn it
1:16.6	or turn around like oh sick it's it's six season this season this the season is gonna be
1:22.2	sick get up get down with the six season This season is going to be sick.
1:23.0	Get up, get down with the sixth season.
1:25.0	Mm-hmm.
1:26.0	Yeah, I once worked out while I was ill and told someone I had a sick workout.
1:33.0	Why did you do that?
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