Hello everyone. Welcome to the Blood Ties podcast. This time it's I'm afraid just me,

Jeffrey Wansel, as my daughter's busy. But it's very

nice to be with you. It's always wonderful to be with you and a great treat. I thought I'd do two

things. This one, this podcast, I talk about some crime books and one case that I find very interesting. I'm not going to go

into one case in detail. I'm just going to try and give you a flavor of what I think. But first of all,

let's talk about books. As you know, one of the other things I do, apart from making true crime

documentaries and making this podcast with Molly, apart from making true crime documentaries

and making this podcast with Molly, is I'm the crime and thriller reviewer for the Daily Mail

and have been for, oh, more than 10 years. And it's always interesting because it's extraordinary

how crime fiction apes crime fact. indeed crime fiction also feeds upon itself.

I'm currently reading an extraordinary book called You Can Stay by a British woman called El

Connell and it really is inspired by Stephen King's marvellous 1987 horror thriller called Misery,

in which a romantic novelist, Paul Sheldon, has a car accident in the snow

and is taken in by a woman called Anne Wilkes, who claims to be his number one fan, but she then

keeps him captive. It's a wonderful book, and it was a wonderful film with Kathy Bates as

Anne Wilkes and James Kahn as Paul Sheldon, the novelist.

It's to this day, it sticks in my mind.

I think I first saw it in Paris, of all unlikely places.

I think I was waiting for a plane or go about to go and get a plane back to London.

And there it was.

So I sat through it riveted on the chanselises I'll never forget it

and indeed the story lingers in the mind

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