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Denise Mina

Multi-award-winning writer Denise Mina discusses her new crime fiction novel, The Good Liar, and the three influences that inspired its creation.

Multi-award-winning writer Denise Mina discusses her twentieth novel, The Good Liar, which follows blood-spatter forensics expert Claudia O’Sheil as she faces a profound moral dilemma.

Denise also shares the three key influences that inspired the novel’s creation: Dorothy Thompson’s Who Goes Nazi?, Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority, and George Orwell’s 1984.

The supporting contributor is award-winning author, James Bond novelist, and lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh, Kim Sherwood.

Producer: Rachael O’Neill
Editor: Gillian Wheelan
This was a ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Scotland production.

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