EPISODE · Nov 21, 2019 · 17 MIN
'Journalists have license to put their nose where it's not wanted': Chris Hammer on ‘Silver’
from Good Reading Podcast · host Good Reading Magazine
For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping. In 'Silver' the follow-up to the bestselling 'Scrublands', Chris Hammer continues the story of Martin Scarsden as he returns to his hometown of Port Silver. Soon he and his new partner Mandy Blonde are embroiled in a brutal murder and a media storm, bringing them face to face with their past. In this episode, Greg Dobbs chats to Chris Hammer fresh from winning the Crime Writers' Association New Blood Dagger Award, to find out how his decades of experience as a journalist gives his crime writing a unique spin. Silver: http://bit.ly/2D4j3Dq Scrublands: http://bit.ly/2uOwsvt
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For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping. In 'Silver' the follow-up to the bestselling 'Scrublands', Chris Hammer continues the story of Martin Scarsden as he returns to his hometown of Port Silver. Soon he and his new partner Mandy Blonde are embroiled in a brutal murder and a media storm, bringing them face to face with their past. In this episode, Greg Dobbs chats to Chris Hammer fresh from winning the Crime Writers' Association New Blood Dagger Award, to find out how his decades of experience as a journalist gives his crime writing a unique spin. Silver: http://bit.ly/2D4j3Dq Scrublands: http://bit.ly/2uOwsvt
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