{"id":6553,"date":"2026-02-09T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:59:42","slug":"episode-282-the-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-282-the-collector\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 282 &#8211; The Collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/collector.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/collector-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Collector by Nora Roberts\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/collector-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/collector-136x220.jpg 136w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/collector.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been watching us with binoculars, waiting for the podcast to return: well, here we are! (But you already knew that, didn&#8217;t you? Because you saw it coming with your binoculars.) Anyway, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cericketts.com\/\">Christine Ricketts<\/a>, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9798990379107\">The Ship<\/a> and Nora Roberts expert, joined us for this year&#8217;s Nora Roberts Month to discuss <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9780515154122\">The Collector<\/a><\/em>. It&#8217;s the story of a housesitter\/voyeur who peeps her way into an international criminal conspiracy involving Faberge eggs and a sexy painter. Listen to this episode while you bake one (1) muffin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers advisory:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-282-the-collector\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnotes:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/2018\/02\/01\/riverdales-best-fake-brand-names\/\">&#8220;Riverdale&#8217;s 10 Most Amazing Fake Brands&#8221; by Kristin Baldwin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up next:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/5209\/9781250775474\"><em>Lawless<\/em> by Nora Roberts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_578\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6553-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/282TheCollector.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/282TheCollector.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/282TheCollector.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/282TheCollector.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?powerpress_pinw=6553-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/282TheCollector.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"282TheCollector.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been watching us with binoculars, waiting for the podcast to return: well, here we are! (But you already knew that, didn&#8217;t you? Because you saw it coming with your binoculars.) Anyway, Christine Ricketts, author of The Ship and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-282-the-collector\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[405,6,2662],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-nora-roberts","tag-podcast","tag-the-collector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6563,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions\/6563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}