Interview #66 | The Devil You Know: Neil Lancaster discusses his DS Max Craigie book series
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🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
I welcome author Neil Lancaster back to the show in this interview episode.
Neil is a former RAF Military Policeman and Police Officer who served in the Metropolitan Police for 25 years between 1990 and 2015.
Since retiring, Neil has turned his hand to writing crime and thriller novels, with his highly regarded DS Max Craigie Scottish crime thriller series becoming a huge success.
The fifth book in the series - The Devil You Know - is available to purchase here:
The Devil You Know (DS Max Craigie Book 5) by Neil Lancaster | HQ | Amazon.co.uk
Book 6 - When Shadows Fall - will be released on Kindle, Audiobook and in Hardback on March 27, 2025. You can pre-order it here:
When Shadows Fall (DS Max Craigie Book 6) by Neil Lancaster | HQ | Amazon.co.uk
***This interview was recorded on January 27, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to British Brothers. |
| 0:03.5 | Let's my podcast. |
| 0:18.9 | Right, everyone, I am back once more with Neilil lancaster welcome neil good morning it's uh lovely to be |
| 0:26.1 | thank you so i spoke to you for my sixth ever interview back on march 31st 22 |
| 0:34.9 | we're nearly at three years. |
| 0:39.0 | That's insane. |
| 0:45.0 | So when I'm looking back, I'm looking back at the books and the dates on the edges of the book, |
| 0:50.7 | which means that would have been around the time I released, was it? |
| 0:52.7 | Blood runs cold, probably. |
| 0:54.5 | It was blood tide, I think. |
| 0:57.3 | The Blood Tide? Go on a million more than that. |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah, well, there you go. Yeah, that's happened. |
| 1:04.0 | So the blood, the blood tide, I'll come on to, if this is the first time you're hearing from Neil, I'll come on to who Neil is in a moment. But for your sake, the Blood Tide, which I think this was your fourth ever book with the second in the Max Craigie series. |
| 1:14.7 | It was my fifth book. |
| 1:16.6 | It was guided three books in the Novak series. |
| 1:19.1 | That's right, yeah. |
| 1:19.8 | And it was the second in the Max Craigie series. |
| 1:22.6 | And we've moved on a bit since there because there's a few more come out. |
| 1:27.0 | So that came out, March 31st, 2022. |
| 1:30.9 | That's where we're right with that. |
| 1:32.6 | So for a bit of context then, this is from my own website profile of view that I wrote last |
| 1:39.2 | time. |
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