You’d die for your best friend. But would you kill for her? That’s the question contemporary thriller author Cate Quinn poses in her latest book, Blood Sisters, an outback adventure that turns to nightmare for two American back packers when they are accused of a bizarre murder in Dead Tree Creek.

Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and our guest today on The Joys of Binge Reading is Cate Quinn. Cate is a UK-based bestselling author whose books are published in fifteen countries. She writes contemporary thrillers as Cate Quinn, and historical thrillers as C. S Quinn.

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Links in this Episode:

Blood Sisters: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59490850-blood-sisters

Black Widows: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52658299-black-widows

C. S, Quinn Historicals: https://www.amazon.com/C.S.-Quinn/e/B00LNOAK5M

Gytha Lodge: https://www.amazon.com/Gytha-Lodge/e/B00699BG6I%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Ruth Ware: https://ruthware.com/

Mark Edwards: https://www.markedwardsauthor.com/

Where to find Cate online:

Website: https://www.catherinequinn.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catecsquinnauthor/

Food blog:   www.thefoodexplorer.co.uk.

What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to the show notes in The Joys of Binge Reading.com for important mentions.But now, here’s Cate.

Introducing thriller author Cate Quinn

Jenny Wheeler: Hello there Cate, and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us.

Cate Quinn: Hi, Jenny. Thanks so much for having me.

Cate Quinn - Thriller author

Jenny Wheeler: You write contemporary thrillers and historical thrillers. The historicals are under a slightly different name, C S Quinn, and we'll touch on those towards the end of our show, but today we are focusing on two high concept, domestic thrillers that you've recently published – Blood Sisters and Black Widows – both with highly original concepts.

Blood Sisters, which I think is the most recent, is set in an Australian Outback town. Two tourists, two backpackers, turn up in this little town, which is a scratch in the desert, Dead Tree Creek. More or less simultaneous with their arrival somebody is gruesomely murdered and the town turns their suspicion to these two girls and thinks they must be responsible.

The town came through really strongly, and first of all I wondered, have you had personal experience of Outback towns?

Cate Quinn: Yes,