Catherine Raynes: The Waiting and The House We Grew Up In - Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

The Waiting by Michael Connelly  

In cold cases, it’s not the hope that kills you. It’s the waiting. 

Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles. 

Meanwhile, Ballard’s badge, gun, and ID are stolen—a theft she can’t report without giving her enemies in the department ammunition to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her mission draws her into unexpected danger. With no choice but to go outside the department for help, she knocks on the door of Harry Bosch. 

At the same time, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit: Bosch’s daughter Maddie, now a patrol officer. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city’s library of lost souls—a case that may be the most iconic in the city’s history. 

The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell  

When a tragedy breaks a family apart, what can bring it back together? 

The Birds seem to be the perfect family: mother, father, four children, a picture-book cottage in the country. 

But one Easter weekend, something happens - something so unexpected, so devastating, that no one can bring themselves to talk about it. 

The family shatters, seemingly for good. 

Until, years later, they are forced to return to the house they grew up in, and to confront what really broke the family apart... 

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