A Good Read: Denise Mina and Simon Brett
Crime writers Denise Mina and Simon Brett join Harriett Gilbert to read each other's favourite books.
ABSENT IN THE SPRING by Agatha Christie (writing as Mary Westmacott) (HarperCollins), chosen by Simon Brett
IN THE GARDEN OF THE FUGITIVES by Ceridwen Dovey (Penguin), chosen by Denise Mina
HIDE MY EYES by Margery Allingham (Penguin), chosen by Harriett Gilbert
Crime writers Denise Mina and Simon Brett join Harriett Gilbert to read each other's favourite books.
Simon chooses Agatha Christie under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, with Absent In The Spring. It鈥檚 a story without any detective and one that, perhaps, reveals a more personal side to Christie's writing.
Denise picks the novel In the Garden of the Fugitives by South African-Australian author Ceridwen Dovey, an epistolary novel which begins with a letter that breaks seventeen years of silence between a rich, elderly man with a broken heart and his former protegee, a young South African filmmaker.
And for the occasion of having two crime authors, Harriett Gilbert picks a golden age crime book, Hide My Eyes by Margery Allingham, where private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer.
Producer: Eliza Lomas for 成人论坛 Audio in Bristol
Join the conversation @agoodreadbbc Instagram
Books
Celebrating reading and the 100 novels that have shaped our world.
How many of these 100 Novels have you read?
Opening Lines
Podcast
-
Books and Authors
Open Book with Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts and A Good Read with Harriett Gilbert