EPISODE · Nov 14, 2018 · 31 MIN
Minette Walters on the silver lining of the Black Death
from Good Reading Podcast · host Good Reading Magazine
What do you get when you put the story of history's greatest pandemic in the hands of the Queen of Crime? Something truly un-put-downable. Minette Walters had sold over 25 million crime thriller novels when she stopped writing in 2007. In the midst of a 10-year hiatus, she made a grisly discovery in her town near Dorset, UK. That discovery inspired her new series about the Black Death that follows a heretical young woman, Lady Anne, as she defies the church to protect her people. Books mentioned in this podcast: The Last Hours - bit.ly/2B5IDrl The Turn of Midnight - bit.ly/2OHyWmE
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What do you get when you put the story of history's greatest pandemic in the hands of the Queen of Crime? Something truly un-put-downable. Minette Walters had sold over 25 million crime thriller novels when she stopped writing in 2007. In the midst of a 10-year hiatus, she made a grisly discovery in her town near Dorset, UK. That discovery inspired her new series about the Black Death that follows a heretical young woman, Lady Anne, as she defies the church to protect her people. Books mentioned in this podcast: The Last Hours - bit.ly/2B5IDrl The Turn of Midnight - bit.ly/2OHyWmE
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