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Wouter van Noort is 36% done with The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)

My turn. First of all, Sadie's "puppy dog" comment was totally out of line. I was not starry-eyed about Zia. It's just that I don't meet a lot of people who can throw fireballs and battle gods. [Stop making faces at me, Sadie. You look like Khufu.]

— 7 hours, 11 min ago Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 27% done with The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)

Right, I'm taking the microphone. There is no chance Carter would tell this part properly, as it's about Zia. [Shut up, Carter. You know it's true.]

— 11 hours, 25 min ago Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 16% done with The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)

Okay, Sadie is telling me to stop stalling and get on with the story. Fine. I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British Museum.

— May 06, 2026 11:11AM 1 comment

Wouter van Noort is 7% done with The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)

We only have a few hours, so listen carefully. If you're hearing this story, you're already in danger. Sadie and I might be your only chance.

— May 06, 2026 07:43AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 88% done with The Midnight Taxi

I can't help thinking of true crime rule thirteen: Even if someone is the obvious suspect - which I guess was me for much of this case - continue to investigate if the evidence doesn't line up.

— May 05, 2026 11:09AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 79% done with The Midnight Taxi

Rule number infinity...no, ten of true crime podcasts: Don't overwhelm the witness. I can't help but wonder if I'm making a mistake.

— May 05, 2026 08:26AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 68% done with The Midnight Taxi

I'm not getting anywhere with polite questions. True crime rule number eight: Switch tactics if a witness is reluctant to talk. Be adaptable. You may come in with a set of questions, but you may not be able to follow them exactly.

— May 05, 2026 02:23AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 57% done with The Midnight Taxi

This isn't one of my true crime podcasts, but I can't help trying to play detective. True crime rule number six: Always keep the suspect or witness talking.

— May 04, 2026 03:43PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 48% done with The Midnight Taxi

In NYC, even though immigrants seem to be on every corner, at least in Queens, I still feel different. I want to tell her that she isn't alone, but I am her client, accused of an atrocious murder, and she is my lawyer, so I stay silent.

— May 04, 2026 08:34AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 40% done with The Midnight Taxi

True crime rule number four: An investigation is sometimes a series of unrelated clues that only come together later. At the beginning, there's sometimes only breadcrumbs. Eventually we'll find the entire loaf of bread... I hope.

— May 04, 2026 02:16AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 29% done with The Midnight Taxi

"I can go?" Surely there is some mistake. The officer shrugs as he twirls the cuffs in his hand, not offering me any answers. He's just following someone else's orders.

— May 03, 2026 03:46PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 17% done with The Midnight Taxi

I pull up to a bodega, a hallmark of New York City. I make a beeline toward the drink section, seeing every snack I can think of crammed onto shelves as I go. Tell me you're having a bad day after you've had some Takis, I think to myself as I grab a bag.

— May 03, 2026 11:38AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 8% done with The Midnight Taxi

I spend most of my free time thinking about murder. The facts, means, motives, opportunity. My true crime podcasts are a lifeline to help me escape traffic.

— May 03, 2026 08:53AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 92% done with Landlines

We sit in the pub with a huge jug of iced water, a pot of tea and a lot of food. 'Can't believe it's over, can't believe we've walked so far.'

— May 02, 2026 10:21AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 86% done with Landlines

We're looking down the valley of trees and rock that bends away towards Marsden, when a large grey bird appears. A peregrine falcon has lifted from a rock ledge just metres away, holding for a moment in the high wind, as if unable to go forwards, then dropping back to the ledge.

— May 02, 2026 02:53AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 78% done with Landlines

A concrete obelisk marks the start of the West Highland Way and our end. As we dance around the pillar, there's finally a glow of appreciation of what we've done.

— May 01, 2026 03:32PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 71% done with Landlines

I glance back at the view one more time as we climb over the shoulder of Black Mount, a final glimpse of Glencoe before we follow the path across the edge of the moor, leaving the High Highlands behind.

— May 01, 2026 10:18AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 64% done with Landlines

A flat tarmac road curves on for miles through another immaculate Highland estate. Through woodlands thick with yellow azalea, through birch thickets carpeted with wild garlic, to what appears on the map to be an easy walk uphill via a narrow valley to the Falls of Glomach.

— May 01, 2026 02:46AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 57% done with Landlines

I have a sense that maybe the remote isolated beauty of this place might just be enough to draw Moth forward, maybe we might actually be able to find our way through this remote landscape and wherever that journey leads.

— Apr 30, 2026 02:49PM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 46% done with Landlines

The tent looks very small on the stony shore of Loch na Gainimh, totally overshadowed by the sheer-sided immensity of the mountains rising on the opposite side of the loch.

— Apr 30, 2026 08:16AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 40% done with Landlines

The clouds begin to break and although it's nearly midnight it's still light enough to see sheep on the shoreline and waves catching the moonlight out at sea. The Highland semi-darkness eventually fades into night, but the scene remains: a painting in blue shadows.

— Apr 30, 2026 12:24AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 29% done with Landlines

We're ready. Ready to cross the edge of the Great Wilderness.

— Apr 29, 2026 11:31AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 21% done with Landlines

Back in the kitchen I pick up the guidebook again. The Cape Wrath Trail. Two hundred and thirty miles running from the north-west corner of Scotland south to Fort William.

— Apr 29, 2026 08:43AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 14% done with Landlines

There is no walking on level ground: to leave the house is to go up or downhill. To go down is easy, but there will always be a hill to return by. To go uphill first means that you save the easy downhill for the return. 'I'll put the kettle on then.'

— Apr 29, 2026 02:42AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 7% done with Landlines

'It's downhill all the way tomorrow, I think it could be an easier day.' Hope rises in the evening dew and takes flight with a thousand crane flies into the soft air.

— Apr 29, 2026 12:13AM Add a comment

Wouter van Noort is 77% done with Voor altijd jong

— Apr 28, 2026 07:14AM Add a comment