The Night Swim is an engaging mystery thriller, written by author, Megan Goldin. I particularly loved the podcast aspect of the story. Since I podcast my book reviews, I was thrilled to read about how, The Night Swim author, Megan Goldin, handled the main character/true-crime podcaster, Rachel Krall. Rachel is dedicated to making her fairly new podcast a success.
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Introduction: (00:02)
Hello gentle readers. Welcome to Book Club Reporter Book Reviews Podcast. I’m your host and Book Club Reporter, Laura Jay.
Season/Episode: (00:10) This season two, episode twenty.
Book/Author: (00:14)
Okay readers and podcast listeners, today I will share with you my book review of The Night Swim written by author, Megan Goldin.
About Book Club Reporter: (00:22)
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Book Description: (00:49)
Okay, I’m going to give you the publisher’s description of this book first And that should provide us with a good segue into my book review. In this thriller from the author of The Escape Room, a podcast host covering a controversial trial in a small town becomes obsessed with a brutal crime that took place there years before. After the 2nd season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help.
Book Description: (01:37)
The small town of Neapolis is being torn apart by a devastating rape trial. The town’s golden boy, a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness, has been accused of raping a high school student, the beloved granddaughter of the police chief. Under the pressure to make season three a success, Rachel throws herself into interviewing and investigating, but the mysterious letters keep showing up in unexpected places. Someone is following her, and she won’t stop until Rachel finds out what happened to her sister twenty-five years ago. Officially, Jenny Stills tragically drowned, but the letters insists she was murdered, and when Rachel starts asking questions, nobody seems to want to answer.
Book Description: (02:24)
The past and present start to collide as Rachel uncovers startling connections between the two cases that will change the course of the trial and the lives of everyone involved. Electrifying and propulsive, The Night Swim asks: What is the price of a reputation? Can a small town ever right the wrongs of its past? And what really happened to Jenny?
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Book Review Intro: (04:01)
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Book Review: (04:11)
The Night Swim is an engaging mystery thriller. I particularly loved the podcast aspect of the story. As many of my followers and listeners know, in addition to posting my book reviews on BookClubReporter.com, I am also now podcasting my book reviews. I was thrilled to read about how, The Night Swim author, Megan Goldin, handled the main character/true-crime podcaster, Rachel Krall. Rachel is dedicated to making her fairly new podcast a success. She is dedicated to covering crime trials in the courtroom and creating corresponding podcast episodes for each day of a trial.
Book Review: (04:48)
Rachel has an assistant who helps her gather information relevant about anyone or anything and/or any situation associated with the trials she covers. Rachel reminds me of a modern-day and younger version of Jessica Fletcher from the Murder She Wrote books and tv series. Rachel follows the leads where-ever they may lead her. And Rachel, like Jessica Fletcher, while sweet, does not shy away from digging into the down and dirty details of a crime and going out of her way to find and uncover the truth. However, let me be clear, Rachel Krall is not your grandma’s Jessica Fletcher.
Book Review: (05:24)
As a new and already popular true-crime podcaster, Rachel strives to provide her podcast listeners with everything they need to know to feel as though they are in the jury box. There is a very good reason why Rachel’s Guilty or Not Guilty Podcast became such an instant hit. Due to Rachel’s fact-gathering and her related true crime podcast episodes, an innocent man was released from prison.
Book Review: (05:49)
Based on Rachel’s track record, Guilty or Not Guilty podcast listeners feel as though they have been provided with the relevant and accurate facts. Therefore, from their virtual jury box seats, Rachel’s podcast listeners make their own informed decisions as to whether they believe the accused to be guilty, or not guilty.
Book Review: (06:09)
The Night Swim storyline deals with two different cases. The instant case is a rape trial in which a swimmer is accused of raping a teenage girl. And the other case concerns the drowning of a girl twenty-five years in the past. As Rachel travels to the small town where the current case will be tried, she is contacted by the sister of the girl who drowned all those 25 years ago. The woman is desperate for Rachel to find information that will prove her sister was actually murdered.
Book Review: (06:40)
Okay truth here…I had tears streaming down my face as I read the last few pages of The Night Swim. Truly, I began to weep as the two stories, of past and present, came to a surprising and unanticipated conclusion. The Night Swim is such a great story! I found myself wishing Rachel Krall and her Guilty or Not Guilty podcast were real. Because if it was real, I would most definitely be a fan! This was my first Megan Goldin novel and I can’t wait to read more of her books in the future.
Thank You: (07:14)
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