S21 Ep29: Hooked: A Deadly Drug With Deadlier Intentions w/Caitlin Rother
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
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True Crime Tuesday presents: Hooked: A Deadly Drug With Deadlier Intentions with Journalist/Author, Caitlin Rother!
When investigative reporter Katrina Chopin and surfing homicide detective Ken Goode lock eyes, there’s an immediate attraction. Sparks fly as they bond over cocktails, sharing their common experiences of being orphans and losing loved ones to suicide.
But the next time they meet, it’s from opposing sides of a high-profile case. Two biotech execs, whose company is developing a groundbreaking sexual enhancement drug, turn up dead in the wealthy seaside enclave of La Jolla Farms, where Goode can readily see that the forensic evidence doesn’t add up.
As they work their own angles, sometimes together and sometimes at odds, their growing attraction threatens to cost them their jobs—and their lives. As Katrina and Goode pursue answers behind these mysterious events, a secret stalker taunts Katrina with details of her tragic past, which takes her to the brink of death. But once the duo rips the mask away from this beautiful paradise, the corrupt underbelly behind all that glitters is revealed.
On today's TCT, Caitlin Rother returns to discuss how she blends her real-life experiences in newsrooms and as a reporter with her fictional character, Katrina Chopin. Caitlin also addresses setting things ahead in the future, from when she was in the business, and the challenge of getting certain things right for this intriguing edge-of-your-seat thriller! We also delve into her opinions on the state of the media these days, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome in. It is True Crime Tuesday. We got a good one today. |
| 0:28.9 | Boy, folks, I had the pleasure of reading an amazing book by our guest today. Caitlin |
| 0:33.7 | Rothers is back with us today on True Crime Tuesday, and the name of the book is Hooked, |
| 0:37.8 | a thriller, and we'll get into what exactly hooked is about here in just a moment. |
| 0:42.5 | I want to tell you a little bit, first of all, about passion projects. |
| 0:45.8 | I guess you could say True Crime Tuesday in itself is a passion project. |
| 0:50.5 | We wanted to, at first, with True Crime Tuesday, combine the subjects of True Crime and the paranormal. |
| 0:56.6 | That quickly kind of fell apart a little bit, as you can only get so many paranormal subjects combined with true crime. |
| 1:04.4 | But Caitlin really did take a swing at a passion project with Hooked. |
| 1:09.7 | And we'll explain with Caitlin a little bit, and we'll bring her in here and tell you |
| 1:15.7 | why Hooked was such a passion project. |
| 1:18.1 | And really, sometimes when you don't succeed, why you need to try, try again and get it |
| 1:23.8 | right. |
| 1:24.2 | And boy, did she get it right. |
| 1:25.5 | This book is something special. |
| 1:27.4 | And we'll talk about |
| 1:28.2 | it here with kately uh during this segment of the program let me tell you a little bit about kately |
| 1:32.8 | as we bring her in and and really she is the new anne rule we'll put it that way and and she does |
| 1:38.3 | this book incredible justice as we talk about hooked a thriller today uh new york times best |
| 1:43.4 | selling author Caitlin rother is an award-winning investigative reporter |
| 1:48.5 | for 19 years or was and has published 16 books from crime novels to crime narrative |
| 1:57.6 | nonfiction and memoirs. |
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