{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6087d3aca4a81031ba098a59/6ac5df4996d5f300f2cab97a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Noelle W. Ihli on The Last to Drown + 3 Book Reviews","description":"<p>Five days, twenty strangers, eighty-four miles of whitewater and no way out. Today I am talking to bestselling thriller author Noelle W. Ihli about The Last to Drown, the book that has put me off whitewater rafting for life. Before that, three book reviews, and a swimming pool mystery I need your help with.</p><p><strong>Three book reviews</strong></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/book/9780008641054\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A Knock at the Door by Louise Candlish</a> (out 5 November). A three-year-old goes missing on a weekend break. Eighteen years later, a young woman arrives at the door claiming to be her. I thought I knew where this was going and I was wrong. This could be Louise&#39;s best book yet, and she will be joining me to talk about it in a few weeks.</li><li><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/book/9781917764452\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Angel of Death by Trevor Wood</a>. The third DCI Jack Parker book. An anonymous killer in Newcastle is offering the terminally ill a dignified escape, while Jack tries to hide his own early onset dementia diagnosis. Superbly written crime with a fascinating lead, and now published by our friends at Orenda Books.</li><li><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/book/9781804997505\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wreck by Catherine Newman</a>. I listened to this on audio while swimming and laughed out loud in the changing room. Funny in places, much more moving than I expected, and a family you want to sit with at the dining table. The narration is spot on.</li></ul><p><strong>Author interview: Noelle W. Ihli on The Last to Drown</strong></p><p><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/book/9781035080106\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Last to Drown</a> follows Kaia, recently widowed, on the rafting trip her husband always wanted to take. Seven years earlier a guide murdered a group of rafters on the same stretch of river, and the true crime community has never stopped asking questions. We talk about:</p><ul><li>The family rafting trip in Idaho that gave her the idea, and why her guides were &quot;slightly concerned&quot; by her questions</li><li>Writing 500 to 1,000 words a day, and making herself sit there like a naughty child in time out</li><li>Why she cannot write on a plane or in an airport</li><li>Grief at the heart of the book, and the conversation with her husband that inspired it</li><li>Writing with real survivors in mind, and the line she will not cross</li><li>Being a true pantser who does not know how her characters will get out</li><li>Survival as a group effort and not something you do alone</li><li>Where to start with her books: The Last to Drown or Gray After Dark</li><li>The candy drawer that powers the words: peanut butter M&amp;Ms and Twizzlers</li></ul><p><strong>Noelle is reading</strong></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/book/9780008742768\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke</a></li><li><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/book/9781615958672\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Witch by Freida McFadden</a></li><li>The forthcoming book by John Marrs</li></ul><p><strong>And finally</strong></p><p>If you wear a swimming cap but leave all your hair out underneath it, please tell me why. I am intrigued.</p><p><a href=\"https://apple.co/4zjuHUW\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on Apple Podcasts</a></p><p><strong>Get in touch - links:</strong></p><p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/533022350711635/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Quick Book Reviews Facebook Group</a> | <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/quick_book_reviews/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram</a> | <a href=\"mailto:quickbookreviews@outlook.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">quickbookreviews@outlook.com</a></p><p>Quick Book Reviews: author interviews and book reviews with no spoilers.</p>","author_name":"Philippa Hall"}