Matthew Spencer on his brilliant debut crime thriller 'Black River'

Adam Bowman, a second-string journalist at a Sydney newspaper, may be the only person with enough inside knowledge to uncover the links between a murder on the grounds of a private school and the notorious 'Blue Moon Killer'. But Bowman will have to venture into the darkest places of his childhood to piece together a series of shocking crimes. Detective Sergeant Rose Riley is part of the taskforce desperately trying to find the killer before he strikes again. Bowman may turn out to be her trump card or may just bring the whole investigation crashing down and put her own life in danger. In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Matthew Spencer about why the Parramatta River is the perfect setting for 'Black River', exploring the fraught connection between police and journalists, and creating great characters from apparently ordinary people.