DREDA SAY MITCHELL & RYAN CARTER In Person With Paul

DREDA SAY MITCHELL MBE & RYAN CARTER (Tony Mason) chat to Paul Burke about their new psychological thriller BELIEVE ME, new ways of publishing, the Groucho Club, writing partners<br/><br/>BELIEVE ME: One woman’s mysterious death has led to a lifetime of pain. Can her daughter find out why?<br/>While working on a property dispute, lawyer Gabby is shocked to discover a name more familiar than her own on the title deeds: her mother’s. But her mother died twenty-five years ago from an undiagnosed illness at forty, leaving Gabby with more questions about the mysterious Ocean Haven than she can find answers for.<br/>Desperate to uncover the truth of her mother’s connection to this house, Gabby begins to investigate, creating tension in her fractured and distant family. So when she begins to uncover the dark and disturbing history of Ocean Haven, is there anyone at all she can turn to?<br/>With her own fortieth birthday fast approaching, Gabby senses the onset of the same unexplained pains her mother experienced all those years ago. Is she being paranoid, or is she about to die in the same way? Or is Ocean Haven hiding a secret about her mother’s past—and Gabby’s future—that she hasn’t yet dared imagine?<br/><br/>DREDA SAY MITCHELL & RYAN CARTER Dreda was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours’ List, 2020. She scooped the CWA’s John Creasey Dagger Award for best first-time crime novel in 2004, the first time a Black British author has received this honour.<br/>Ryan and Dreda write across the crime and mystery genre – psychological thrillers, gritty gangland crime and fast-paced action books. Spare Room, their first psychological thriller, was a #1 UK and US Amazon Bestseller. Dreda is a passionate campaigner and speaker on social issues and the arts. She has appeared on television, including Celebrity Pointless, Celebrity Eggheads, BBC 1 Breakfast, Sunday Morning Live, Newsnight, The Review Show and Front Row Late on BBC 2. Ryan and Dreda performed a specially commissioned monologue on the ground-breaking Sky Arts Art 50 on Sky TV.<br/>Dreda is a trustee of the Royal Literary Fund and an ambassador for The Reading Agency. Some of their books are currently in development as TV and film adaptations.<br/>Dreda’s parents are from the beautiful Caribbean island of Grenada.<br/><br/>Recommendations<br/>The Colour Purple Alice Walker<br/>Clinging to the Wreckage John Mortimer <br/>Until Proven Innocent Nicola Williams<br/><br/>Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.Produced by Junkyard Dog<br/>Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh<br/>Crime Time<br/><br/>Crime Time FM is the official podcast of<br/>Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023<br/>CrimeFest 2023<br/>&<br/>CWA Daggers 2023