In Conversation with Ann Cleeves: The Dying Light

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In Conversation with Ann Cleeves: The Dying Light This is a special Wednesday episode — Ann Cleeves joins me to talk about The Dying Light , the fourth Matthew Venn novel, out this Thursday. We talk about the white Art Deco bungalow that started the whole book, why she never knows who did it when she begins writing, and how a hint of resentment over second homes in Devon became the beating heart of the story. Ann also opens up about Matthew's evangelical upbringing and why she thinks it drew him to policing, what forty books' worth of experience has taught her about pushing through a block, and why long train journeys are the best plotting tool she's found. Plus: Irish dancing at Harrogate,…