Ann Cleeves and Louise Penny on writing, mystery, and friendship

Mystery writers Ann Cleeves and Louise Penny discuss their writing, their careers, and their friendship at a Politics and Prose event in Washington, DC on 4/29/18.
Ann Cleeves is one of Great Britain's most beloved crime writers. Her Vera Stanhope and Shetland series have both been adapted into hit BBC shows, and shes won three Crime Writers' Association awards, including the Diamond Dagger, which is the highest honor in British crime writing. In The Glass Room, her newest Vera Stanhope novel, Vera's young neighbor disappears. Vera tracks her to the Writers' House, a local retreat for aspiring authors, but the investigation grows quickly complex-so complex, in fact, that Vera begins to suspect that the killer is taking murders from fiction and making them real.
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Louise Penny is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the thirteen Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. Her work has won five Arthur Awards, the Crime Writers; Association New Blood Dagger, and more, and has been translated into twenty-three languages. The Inspector Gamache novels are set in Quebec, many in the small fictional town of Three Pines, where her latest, Glass Houses, takes place. The novel opens with Gamache in a courtroom, describing the arrival in Three Pines of a dark, hooded figure, but it spins far beyond the courtroom, into the depths of Gamache's memory and conscience.
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Produced by Tom Warren

[@hambani]

Liked Cleeves' saying we need more tolerance and understanding

[@PamelaKulloEgelton]

great interview with two wonderful writers.

[@fionajohnston]

On the subject of a question raised about small screen showings of her books, I would have liked to have heard Ann Cleeves favourable comments about Douglas Henshall playing the role of Perez[Shetland] which I confess I prefer the most

[@Selahsmum]

Any fellowca adians think louise penny sounds just like sheila rogers?

[@hambani]

Like Penny's talk on conscience