Hi, I'm Molly. And I'm Jeffrey Wonsall. Welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast.

How you doing, Dad? Pretty good, thank you. It's my birthday last week, which is another milestone, another year rolls on.

Oh, yeah, I was going to need to take a photo of you and your, you and your new shoes for your, for Instagram.

Yes. Well, I'll put them on.

Wait, I don't have to do it today.

Okay, we'll do it. We'll do it.

Another day. I bought Jeffrey some shoes.

Very, very exciting shoes, they are.

But perhaps one of the things that the listeners to the podcast don't know is that I'm also the crime and

thriller reviewer for the Daily Mail and in that capacity I get a lot of books to look at.

And so I thought I'd make a point of always mentioning, say, one, at the start of the podcast.

Sure, a bit good recommendation for people to read some, well, actually you do

refuse some true crime stuff, but not as much as...

Not as much as I do crime fiction and thrill fiction.

And one of the many people who listen to the podcast is a lady who works at Little Brown,

who's in the middle of real peaky blinders

well i hope she's enjoying it well she says she is um she says i was something of a convert later

convert to podcasts i'm now fully obsessed with them such a good platform for interesting and thoughtful

discussion well i think that's i hope people think Oz is thoughtful and interesting.

That's what she was referring to. Oh, was she? Yes. That's good. Yeah. I thought that was very flattering.

As we say often, you know, the more response we can get, the better. And in return, I'll mention

a book of hers. It's called The Poison Garden by a writer

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