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The Book Case

Paula Hawkins is a Mystery Master

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Paula Hawkins is a master of the mystery, and her new one, The Blue Hour, has one of the best opens and closes to a mystery we have ever read. An author who knows mood and atmosphere, this book will keep you turning the pages long after you told yourself to go to bed. Our bookstore this week is a revisit with one of our favorites, Beacon Hill Books. Join us! Books mentioned in this week’s podcast: The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Into the Water by Paula Hawkins Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Life After Life by Kate Atkinson The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Is crypto perfect?

0:01.9

Nope.

0:02.7

But neither was email when it was invented in 1972.

0:06.0

And yet today, we send 347 billion emails every single day.

0:12.1

Crypto is no different.

0:13.5

It's new.

0:14.2

But like email, it's also revolutionary.

0:17.6

With Crackin, it's easy to start your crypto journey with 24-7 support when you need it.

0:22.6

Go to crackin.com and see what crypto can be. Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the

0:26.7

money you invest. This is a high-risk investment, and you should not expect to be protected if

0:29.2

something goes wrong.

0:36.0

Well, hello there, bookcasers. I'm Charlie Gibson. You kind of sneaked up on us. But it's nice to have you listening this week.

0:43.6

Yes, hello, all you sneaky, sneaky listeners. It is Kate Gibson, the other half of the bookcase team, and we welcome you.

0:51.3

We do indeed. And we have Paula Hawkins with us this week.

1:00.2

She sort of burst on the scene, I think, 10 years ago with a book that everybody read.

1:04.3

It was on the New York Times bestseller list, I think, for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks.

1:09.5

It was the girl on the train, which was a wonderfully intriguing mystery.

1:13.0

And I think she writes mysteries of a different kind. There's a sort of slow build to her mysteries. She doesn't, she doesn't hit you over the head with anything

1:19.7

else. It just, it just kind of, well, there's a sense of dread that develops in you. It,

1:25.2

it slowly develops. Well, I think it's interesting. First of all,

1:28.9

I'm really excited to be talking to Paula Hawkins this week. We got her book because they asked

1:33.6

me to speak to her at a live event. And I got, this was a sort of rare exception. Normally, I

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