The Harrogate Crime Festival starts today (20th July) in the UK. I’m not going to be there this year, I’m working away to finish the next Erika Foster book, but I thought I’d share this video interview from when I went to the festival in 2017.
This was one of the most fun interviews I’ve ever done. The wonderful crime writer Angela Clarke had a van parked up outside the Swan Hotel, and she would grab crime writers walking past to take part in an interview and a fun challenge – silly things, like eating five cream crackers whilst balancing a glass of water on your head. I was given the option of choosing the challenge – and I ended up agreeing to read the description of The Girl in the Ice in the style of Brenda Blethyn in Mike Leigh’s film Secrets and Lies.
Secrets and Lies is one of my favourite films, and I always like to make my husband Ján laugh by talking like Brenda Blethyn’s character. So some how I got talked into doing this in the interview. Brenda Blethyn was also at the festival that year, promoting the tv series Vera – I don’t know if she ever saw or heard this, but if she did, I hope I did her proud.
Anyway, sending you all lots of love, and rest assured I’m cooking up a great 8th crime adventure for Erika Foster which will be called… Lethal Vengeance.