Episode 282 – The Collector
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve been watching us with binoculars, waiting for the podcast to return: well, here we are! (But you already knew that, didn’t you? Because you saw it coming with your binoculars.) Anyway, Christine Ricketts, author of The Ship and Nora Roberts expert, joined us for this year’s Nora Roberts Month to discuss The Collector. It’s the story of a housesitter/voyeur who peeps her way into an international criminal conspiracy involving Faberge eggs and a sexy painter. Listen to this episode while you bake one (1) muffin.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Riverdale’s 10 Most Amazing Fake Brands” by Kristin Baldwin.
Coming up next: Lawless by Nora Roberts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about glamroger eggs so you don't have to. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.1 | And for this episode, we read The Collector by Nora Roberts. It's Nora Roberts Month, guys. |
| 0:24.0 | Joining us to discuss this cautionary tale about why you should invest in curtains is curtain fanatic Christine, one of our Nora Roberts experts. |
| 0:33.4 | Hey, guys. Thanks for having me back. Of course. Couldn't do it without you, Christine. I appreciate. |
| 0:40.2 | Christine is also the the author of the book The Ship. Jot that down. |
| 0:46.7 | Are there curtains in the ship? There are no curtains in the ship, but there are... |
| 0:51.5 | If you don't like need them, maybe. No one can peer in your windows in space,, but there are... In space, you don't, like, need them, maybe. |
| 1:00.3 | No one can peer in your windows in space, but Sam definitely has, like, blackout film on the windows. |
| 1:01.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:01.8 | High tech. |
| 1:02.5 | High tech. |
| 1:03.4 | Deeply private person. |
| 1:05.0 | Our beautiful curtains throughout Christine's home, however. |
| 1:09.6 | Yes. |
| 1:11.1 | Thanks to my wife, who is the real curtain fanatic. |
| 1:15.5 | You married into a curtain family. |
| 1:18.7 | It was a smart decision on my part, especially after reading this book. |
| 1:24.1 | All right. |
| 1:24.8 | So welcome back to us, listeners. |
| 1:27.2 | Hello again. It's 2026. This is our first main |
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