On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.

It was an extraordinary news story.

The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,

mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.

One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for

Leukin. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex von

Tunselman. This is The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert. Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts, where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.

We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.

Hello, with me today, Sophie Rayworth, presenter of the news at 6 and the news at 10 on BBC 1.

Sophie also has her own book Instagram, read by Rayworth, which she started for friends who kept asking her what to read.

With her is the author Patrick Ness, best known for his books for young adults, including

Monster Calls and The Chaos Walking Trilogy.

His short novel, Different for Boys, came out this month.

Sophie Raybeth, would you start us off?

What have you chosen as a good read?

I have chosen a book called West by Caris Davis.

It's her debut novel.

It came out in 2018, I think. I'd never heard of it until a few

months ago when Andrew Holgate, who was for many years working at the Sunday Times as the literary

editor, he left his job and he published a list of his 23 best books for his 23 years that he

worked at the paper. And that was on it it and so I picked it up and I thought well

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