Hello everyone, and welcome to Speaking with Joy, a podcast to fill your soul, challenge your mind,

and make you brave. I'm your host, Joy Clarkson, and an evangelist for all things good, true, and beautiful.

So make yourself a cup of tea, find somewhere comfortable, and let's dive in to this week's episode.

For me, as for many others, the reading of detective stories is an addiction like tobacco or alcohol.

The symptoms of this are, firstly, the intensity of the craving.

If I have any work to do, I must be careful not to get hold of a detective story.

For once I begin, I cannot work or sleep till I have finished it. Hello, everyone,

and welcome back to Speaking with Joy. This is one of my episodes in the series that I like to

call on my mind the Escape Cast, some wholesome and fascinating distraction for these weeks and

months that we find ourselves in. And today I have the great fun of

welcoming a dear friend onto the show. Welcome Bose Harrington. Hello, sir. Um, Bose, before we

dive into this week's episode, in which we will be discussing one of my and your favorite topics,

which is mystery novels, why don't you give everyone a bit of an introduction

into yourself? I am a mystery writer. I'm working on my first book, and in my free time,

I ghost write mysteries. Yes, what you do with great alacrity. How many books have you ghost

written, do you think, over your...

30, 40. Wow, that is wild. But also, people would also know you for your Twitter presence, which is a great delight in these strange times. Where do you tweet?

Oh, sketches by Bose. That's where we actually first met.

Four years ago.

Was it four years ago now?

Okay, do you want to know something funny?

I was thinking about this.

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