Catherine Raynes: Wolf Hour and The Wasp Trap

Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbo   

This killer has a story. 

When a small-time crook is shot down in the streets of Minneapolis, all signs point to a lone wolf, a sniper who has vanished into thin air. 

To tell it, he needs to get caught. 

When the shooter strikes again, it’s maverick detective Bob Oz they call in to crack the case. They don’t think this victim will be the last. 

And this wolf wants the world to know... 

As the body count rises, Oz suspects something even more sinister is at play. And the closer he gets to the truth, the more disturbed he becomes. Because this serial killer reminds him of someone dangerous: himself. 

He’s only just getting started. 

  

The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards  

Summer 1999. Will joins five other idealistic graduates working for an eccentric psychology professor. They’re going to launch a website to change online dating forever. 

No-one expects it to end in tragedy. 

Twenty-five years later, Will gets an invitation: a dinner party. A chance to see the old gang again. 

But as soon as he arrives, something doesn’t seem right. 

There’s an unexpected guest. The hosts are clearly keeping a secret. And on the way in, Will is sure he heard crying. 

Everyone has something to hide about what really happened that summer. 

But only one of them is willing to kill to find the truth… 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from news Talks at be.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Joe Nisbo is back with a brand new thriller. This
is a standalone, so you don't need to have read
previous ones to keep up with the storyline. It's called
Wolf Hour. Our book reviewer Katherine Rains is here with
her thoughts on it. What do you reckon? Catherine?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Look, it's good as you say. Joanisbo's kind of a
very prolific author. He's a Norwegian author, but Wolf In
the standalone is actually set in America, or well actually
precisely in Minneapolis, and it's got. While the setting's not Norwegian,
it's kind of retains many of his trademarks. And it
starts in twenty sixteen, and it revolves around the serial

(00:48):
killer and a disgraced detective, a guy called Bob As.
And Detective As is an interesting guy's a bit of
an anti hero. He's a rebel, he's a bit morally gray,
and he has a good and healthy disregard for rules.
But he's also struggling in his personal life to come
to terms with the loss of his daughter and the
breakdown of his marriage. And so he's making lots of
wrong choices in life and attempts to find solutions. At

(01:12):
the same time, there's this very sophisticated killer on the
Prowler guy called Thomas Gomez, and you know, all the
signs are pointing towards him when they thought it actually
disappeared a number of years ago. And oz Dees really
wants to solve this particular case and he keeps working
on it, but he's taken off and suspended from duty
and everything seems to be going on. And then there's

(01:34):
the sniper who's on a mission of revenge, but he
also wants to highlight the problem with America's very lacks
gun controls. So you flip between these third person viewpoints
and Bob Ohs and several other characters in the first
person viewpoint of the Murderer, which is a really interesting
way to tell the story, and it's clever, and it
didn't end how I would expect it, And it's a

(01:56):
really interesting mix this this book. It's a bit political,
it's a bit gory, it's a bit sad in a
really weird way. It's quite heartwarming as well. But yeah,
it does retain those real Nesbo characteristics and how he
tells a story.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, okay, great, that sounds fantastic. So that's Wolf Ower
by Joan Nisbo. You've also read The Wasp Trap by
Mark Edwards.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
So this is a story of six friends, Will who
tells most of the story, Sophie Rohan, Theo, Georgia, and
Lily and they meet up after twenty five years to
celebrate the life of their former professor, a guy called
Sebastian Marlow, and set in two thousand and four. They
meet up at Theo and Georgina's very beautiful house and
they realize that I've got a lot of catching up
to do because they haven't seen each other since nineteen

(02:40):
ninety nine, and back in ninety nine they created this
dating website together, but they also create within this website,
created this test to identify psychopaths, and this questionnaire that
they developed has turned into a tool known as the
Wasp Trap. But as their night progresses in twenty twenty four,
they found themselves in this situation being held at gunpoint,

(03:02):
and they are informed that they must share their deepest
and dark secrets to the group or be picked off
one by one. And as they kind of scramble, the
book goes back and forth to the past and the
present day, and their predicament comes very dire, and it's
dark and it's clever and it's suspenseful and you just
kind of wonder how well I know each other and
you kind of chills down your spine and you've got
no idea what's coming next. And it's that real perfect

(03:25):
lock room mystery with characters all holding lots of secrets
of their own right.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
That sounds amazing cool. Okay, so there's the Wasp Trap.
Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards. Catherine's first book was Wolf
Ower by Joanie's By, and both of those will be
on the News talk 'DB website. Thank you Catherine.

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