The Conversation with Nadine Matheson
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Welcome to The Conversation with Nadine Matheson, where best-selling author of the 'Detective Inspector Anjelica Henley' series Nadine Matheson sits down with fellow authors for insightful, honest, and entertaining conversations. Each episode dives deep into the world of writing, from the publishing journey to overcoming challenges, the experiences that shape their work, and anything else that comes up when great minds come together. Whether you're a fan of gripping stories or curious about the life behind the books, 'The Conversation' promises thought-provoking chats and moments of inspiration.
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Erin Kelly: Pen to Publication, the Author's Expedition
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04/15/24 • 67 min
For Sunday Times Bestselling author, Erin Kelly, every book launch feels like stepping into the spotlight for the first time, each page a new opportunity to captivate an audience or fall flat. This episode is an expedition through the complexities of authorship, examining the delicate equilibrium between the creative spirit and the unforgiving marketplace. Together, Erin Kelly and I uncover the ambitious path of securing book deals, confront the stark realities of writers' earnings, and celebrate the tradition of mentorship that binds the community of storytellers. Erin Kelly's debut, The Poison Tree was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller, became a major ITV drama and was a Richard & Judy Summer Read in 2013. Her tenth novel, The House of Mirrors, the sequel to 'The Poison Tree' is available now.
The House of Mirrors
One of them has killed before.
One of them will kill again.
In the sweltering summer of 1997, straight-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba - a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. A few months later, two people were dead and another had been sent to prison.
Having stood by Rex as he served his sentence, Karen is now married to him with a daughter, Alice, who runs a vintage clothing company in London. They're a normal family, as long as they don't talk about the past, never mention the name Biba, and ignore Alice's flashes of dark, dangerous fury.
Karen has kept what really happened that summer of '97 hidden deep inside her. Alice is keeping secrets of her own. But when anonymous notes begin to arrive at Alice's shop, it seems the past is about to catch up with them all ...
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Sam Holland
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04/24/23 • 63 min
Sam Holland is the award winning author of 'The Echo Man' and the soon to be released 'The Twenty'. Having always been fascinated with the dark and macabre, Sam Holland studied psychology at university then spent the next few years working in HR, before quitting for a full-time career in writing.
The Twenty
The countdown has begun. Who will die next?
A shocking crime scene...
DCI Adam Bishop has never seen anything like it. Five murder victims – all with numbers written above. And the spray-painted daubs reveal a horrific truth: the killer is counting down...
A case that twists and turns...
When Dr Romilly Cole learns of the murders, they trigger memories of a traumatic past she has tried hard to forget. But getting involved with the case is a bad idea. She and Bishop have history – and working together could never end well.
A race against time to stop a killer...
Adam and Romilly soon realise the truth lies in a decades-old case, and only Romilly holds the key. But they must act quickly, because with every passing day, there are more victims. And as the numbers edge toward zero, the murders get closer to home...
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Christie J Newport
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04/10/23 • 73 min
Christie J Newport is the winner of the first Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour. Her debut, which was unanimously received by the judges, was published in 2022.
Since developing a rare illness as a child, Christie found reading and creating stories to be an escape. Writing crime and psychological thrillers set in her home city is her passion. It’s always been her dream to witness someone lost in the pages of her creation.
*TW: Todays episode includes a discussion of debilitating illnesses and assisted suicide.
The Raven's Mark
Meet Beth Fellows, a Preston detective haunted by her mum’s murder when she was only four. She’s a driven woman with a heart of gold.
Now Beth faces the hardest case of her career: Rose Danes’s throat is cut, her body discarded on a council estate. Seared into the teenage girl’s skin is the image of a raven.
Six years ago, another girl was attacked. The victim, fourteen-year-old Celine Wilson, barely survived and was left brain-damaged in a coma.
THIS GIRL ALSO HAD A RAVEN BURNED ON HER BODY.
Why wait six years to strike again?
Then Beth receives a mobile phone from the killer — with a warning that he will hurt those closest to her if she tells anyone.
She’s talking to a dangerous predator but nobody knows. Not her team. Not her partner. No one.
Beth must break all the rules to stop any more girls from suffering. But will her everything be enough to stop a sick murderer?
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Rachel Faturoti (Bonus Episode)
The Conversation with Nadine Matheson
03/29/23 • 65 min
Ratchel Faturoti is a British-Nigerian author, editor, screenwriter and poet. She believes it’s important for readers to see themselves represented well in stories. Her first YA novel, Sade and her Shadow Beasts was published in 2022.
Her second novel, Finding Folkshore, will be published on 6 April 2023.
When 16-year old Fola, struggling to deal with her brother’s cancer diagnosis and impending surgery, follows a motley crew along the Victoria Line and past its final Brixton stop, she discovers Folkshore, a mystical land where all is not as it seems.
Between navigating talking animals, mythical Shriekers and a thunderstorm that leaves her trapped in Folkshore, she discovers a nefarious gentrification plot by the Assembly, a plan that is enforced by pugnacious police pigs.
Fola quickly discovers that the only way out is through, and finds herself working to save Folkshore while still desperately trying to get back home to be by her brother’s side.
If she fails, the community she’s come to love could be destroyed forever and she may never find her way home.
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Scott Walker
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05/29/23 • 61 min
Scott Walker is one of the world’s most experienced kidnap for ransom negotiators and is first book, Order Out of Chaos is available now.
Scott Walker's career included 16 years as a Scotland Yard detective before embarking on a career as a negotiator where he supported organisations, government departments and private individuals in negotiating the release of hostages all over the world.
Out of Chaos
A new approach to succeeding in negotiations where failure is not an option, from one of the world's most experienced kidnap for ransom negotiators.
Scott Walker has probably one of the most difficult jobs in the world. When pirates have hijacked a ship, when a criminal gang has kidnapped someone, when an entire company's future is being held to ransom from a cyber-attack, Scott is the person who gets called in. He has successfully negotiated more than 300 such incidents using the principles in this book.
His methods, centred in empathy, active listening, trust-based influence and emotional control, will help you achieve the outcome you want. Regardless of whether you're an executive in a multi-national organisation, the owner of a small business, a local sports team coach or running the family household, you're negotiating every single day, whether you realise it or not.
Learn the skills Scott uses to resolve life or death kidnappings all over the world - from the Niger Delta, China and the Philippines to the Middle East, Europe and Latin America - and how to apply them to your own life, at work and at home.
Order Out of Chaos provides tools that cut straight to the most effective way of communicating, particularly in times of crisis, change and uncertainty.
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Lesley Kara: Author. From Late Starter to Bestseller
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11/28/23 • 63 min
Lesley Kara is the Sunday Times Bestselling author of 'The Rumour'. The Rumour was the highest selling crime fiction debut of 2019 and has been sold in 18 territories. Lesley has written four novels and her latest novel, The Apartment Upstairs, is out now.
The Apartment Upstairs
Scarlett's aunt lived - and was brutally murdered - in the apartment upstairs. But Scarlett is determined that life should return to some kind of normal, even if that means living with just a ceiling between her and the scene of such a devastating crime. After all, this is her home. She's safe here. Isn't she?
Dee is busy balancing her job as a funeral director with organizing an event to mark the disappearance of her best friend, ten years ago. So she's got enough on her plate without worrying about the threatening messages that are appearing on her company's Facebook page.
When Scarlett approaches Dee about planning her aunt's funeral, an unexpected link between them emerges. Together, the two women could uncover secrets that have long been buried. Even while someone wants to stop them digging . . .
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Yasmin Angoe. Author. Not an Impossible Mission.
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07/03/23 • 70 min
Yasmin Angoe is the Anthony-nominated author of the critically acclaimed thrillers Her Name Is Knight and They Come At Knight of the Nena Knight series. She is a first-generation Ghanaian American and, in 2020, received the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime.
Yasmin’s books were an Amazon Best Book of the Month for Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, and an Editor’s Pick. Her latest novel in the Nena Knight series, It Ends with Night' is available to pre-order now
It Ends with Night
In this thrilling conclusion of the Nena Knight series, the trained assassin will have to confront the ghosts of her past...before she becomes one herself.
Until his untimely death, Nena’s mentor was the backbone of the Tribe. With his leadership position unfilled and despite the Tribe’s newfound misgivings about her, Nena has stepped into a new role she never wanted.
Politics is an entirely new venture for her, and now one of the Tribe’s own has been kidnapped, forcing her back to her origins as an assassin. But the only person qualified for such a rescue mission is Nena Knight—and a new team whose trust in her continues to waver.
Determined to harness the power of her former role to succeed in her new one, Nena must also face what she left behind. Old fears, resentments, and anger threaten the precarious hold Nena has on her new life as she realizes that the past—and the people from it—are never far behind.
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T. Orr Munro
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05/22/23 • 65 min
T. Orr Munro is the author of the CSI Ally Dymond series. T. Orr Munro has a varied career which includes four years as a Crime Scene Investigator, teacher and a police and crime journalist.
Her first novel Breakneck Point, which is set in North Devon, was published last year and the second novel SlaughterHouse Farm is released on Thursday 25 May 2023.
Slaughterhouse Farm
A family secret worth killing for...
In the dead of night, 72-year-old Miriam Narracott is found wandering on Exmoor, holding a knife and covered in blood. Inside the family farmhouse lies the body of her adult son, Gabe.
CSI Ally Dymond is on compassionate leave, but when approached by the new DI, recently arrived from London and eager to have Ally's keen eye and local knowledge on the case, she finds herself being drawn back in.
With their only suspect Miriam unwilling – or unable – to talk, the team must dig into the family’s history to uncover a motive. Instead they find evidence that Gabe was involved with a criminal network, suggesting a completely different chain of events. But if Miriam isn’t the killer – then who is?
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Olivia Kiernan. Author: Lessons Learnt
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06/12/23 • 83 min
Olivia Kiernan is an Irish writer living in the UK. She was born and raised in County Meath, near the famed heritage town of Kells and holds an MA in Creative Writing awarded by the University of Sussex. The End of Us is Olivia's first standalone after her acclaimed Frankie Sheehan Series and will be published on 22 June 2023.
The End Of US
Myles and Lana Butler live on a gorgeous new development in Wimbledon, leaning on a mortgage that is just within reach. When one of Myles' investments fails they are bound to lose everything.
Gabriel and Holly Wright have just moved in next door. The Wrights are sophisticated, ambitious and apparently very wealthy. At an after-dinner drink with their new neighbours, Myles and Lana share their worries and a solution is suggested between the couples. Life Insurance fraud. For a cut of the pay out, the Wrights would help them.
No one thought they were being serious. No one agreed they'd actually go through with it. And no one mentioned it would involve murder.
Then, one night, Lana doesn't come home.
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Caz Frear: The Odyssey of a Writer, From Inspiration to Industry
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05/13/24 • 71 min
In 2017 Caz Frear won the Richard and Judy 'Search for a Bestseller' competition. Her debut novel, Sweet Little Lies was followed by Stone Cold Heart. Embarking on the creation of a second novel often feels like navigating through a darker, more complex sequel to the joyous tale of writing a debut. Caz Frear and I peel back the curtain on the pressures and pleasures that accompany of being a writer. Listen as we dissect the emotional rollercoaster Caz's breakthrough experiences post-writing competition triumph, all while battling the ever-present imposter syndrome, the shifting landscapes of the literary world and her new novel, Five Bad Deeds.
Five Bad Deeds
Teacher, mother, wife, and all-around good citizen Ellen is juggling non-stop commitments, from raising a teen and two toddlers to job-hunting, to finally renovating her dream home, the Meadowhouse. Amidst the chaos, an ominous note arrives in the mail declaring:
SOONER OR LATER EVERYONE SITS DOWN TO A BANQUET OF CONSEQUENCES.
Why would someone send her this note? Ellen has no clue. She's no angel - a white lie here and there, an occasional sharp tongue - but nothing to incur the wrath of an anonymous enemy.
Everyone around Ellen - her husband, her teenage daughter, her sister, her best friend, her neighbours - can guess why, though. They all know from bitter experience that while Ellen’s intentions are always good, this ultimately counts for very little when you’ve (unintentionally?) blown up someone’s life. Could the five bad deeds that come to haunt Ellen explain why things have gone so horribly wrong?
As she races to discover who’s set on destroying her life, Ellen receives more anonymous messages, each one more threatening than the last . . . and each hitting closer and closer to home and everything she cherishes.
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The Conversation with Nadine Matheson currently has 93 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Writer, Society & Culture, Publishing, Personal Journals, Writing, Author, Podcasts, Books, Arts and Authors.
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The episode title 'Pernille Hughes: Author. Blocked at the Departure Gate' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on The Conversation with Nadine Matheson is 67 minutes.
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