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Featuring conversations with the authors and narrators of your favourite books, as well as reading round-ups, and the odd light-hearted literary game.

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Feb 23, 2023

Author Jonathan Whitelaw joins Jess for a cosy chat about cosy crime. He tells us how he landed such a fantastic narrator in Sid Sagar, how he approached character development in The Bingo Hall Detectives, why he chose the Lake District for the setting, and what we should be reading while we wait for his next book, The Village Hall Vendetta.

Books Mentioned

The Bingo Hall Detectives and The Village Hall Vendetta, Jonathan Whitelaw

Rivers of London: Amongst Our Weapons, Ben Aaronovitch

A Spoonful of Murder, J.M. Hall

Her Majesty the Queen Investigates (series), S.J. Bennett

The Marlow Murder Club and Death Comes to Marlow, Robert Thorogood

Links

Q&A with Ben Aaronovitch

Conversation with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

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