Hello, welcome back to Blood Ties. I'm Geoffrey Wansall, but I'm afraid I'm here on my own without my daughter, Molly, who's busy doing something else.

But so I hope you'll forgive me. Thank you for listening, thank you for being there, thank you for being so supportive.

As you know, I've always wanted to do a little bit more with the podcast

and I'm hoping today we'll show what I mean.

I'm doing an interview with a really talented crime writer called Tim Weaver

about a book of his which I reviewed in the Daily Mail

and which I think is really very good indeed and he's an interesting man

and I hope it's the shape of things to come because I want to do a number of interviews in the months ahead with all sorts of people involved both in true crime but also in crime

fiction because there is more to true crime than simply regaling you with details of dreadful

events so i hope you'll enjoy this which I'm going to call an interview with Tim Weaver, crime

writer.

Thank you.

Tim, lovely to see you.

Welcome to Blood Ties.

I'll be doing this podcast for more than five years.

And we don't have many guests.

So I thought it was rather good to have you.

Oh, well, thank you for inviting me. I thought it would rather good to have you. Oh well, thank you for inviting me.

I thought it would be fun.

Partly because, as you know, I write a review crime and thrillers for the Daily Mail.

I've reviewed you a couple of three times.

Yeah.

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