This week on The Joys of Binge Reading, Strange Sally Diamond, the latest, dark and twisted thriller from award-winning Irish novelist, Liz Nugent.

Hi there. I'm your host, Jenny Wheeler, and on Binge Reading today, Liz talks about her gripping new psychological bestseller, always laced with black humor, and explains how Sally is pretty like herself; “Liz, without a filter.”

She tells us what she's learned from TV shows like Breaking Bad and how she came to set part of her story in New Zealand.

We've got our usual book give away, Historic Fiction with Strong Female Leads this week, including one of my books. Sadie's Vow book one in my latest Home At Last series.

Sadie makes a death bed promise to her mother to protect her younger sister, but when an infatuated Phoebe debunks with a mob boss, Sadie has her work cut out.

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Links mentioned in the show

Unravelling Oliver: https://www.liznugent.com/unravelling-oliver

The Girl On A Train: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train

Gone Girl: https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Girl-Gillian-Flynn/dp/0307588378

Craig Sisterson: https://thespinoff.co.nz/authors/craig-sisterson

Ngaio Marsh Awards: https://newzealandbooks.com/product-category/awards/ngaio-marsh-awards/

Otago University Centre for Celtic Studies: https://www.otago.ac.nz/ciss/index.html

Professor Liam Mcilvanney: https://www.otago.ac.nz/ciss/people/otago716926.html

Our Little Cruelties: https://www.liznugent.com/little-cruelties

Skin Deep: https://www.liznugent.com/skin-deep

Lying In Wait: https://www.liznugent.com/lying-in-wait

Sarah Hilary, Black Thorn; https://sarahhilary.com/

Vanda Simon: https://www.vandasymon.com/

Paul Cleave: https://www.paulcleave.com/

Fiona Sussman: https://www.fionasussman.co.nz/

Dame Fiona Kidman: https://fionakidman.com/

The Secret History by Donna Tartt: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29044.The_Secret_History

The Book of Evidence by John Banville (Booker Prize winner): https://www.amazon.com/Book-Evidence-John-Banville/dp/0375725237

Light A Penny Candle - Maeve Binchy: https://www.amazon.com/Light-Penny-Candle-Famous-Firsts/dp/045121143X

Where to find Liz online

Website: https://www.liznugent.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liz.nugent.399

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lizzienugent

But now, here's the show.

Introducing thriller writer Liz Nugent

Award winning best selling thriller author Liz Nugent

Hello there, Liz and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us.

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

Liz Nugent: Hi Jenny. Thank you very much. It's nice to be virtually in New Zealand. I wish I was there for real.

Jenny Wheeler: I think that you have visited here, haven't you, but we'll talk about that a bit a little bit later.

You've had a brilliant career as a novelist. You're onto book five, we're going to be talking about today, but right from the very start, you've had bestsellers and lots of very positive attention.

You’ve won numerous Irish book awards We should mention if people don't realize it from your accent that you are talking from Ireland.

How did you manage to hit the ground running like that?

Liz Nugent: I don't know. I think, I think my first novel Unraveling Oliver, it came. It came at it. It's a domestic noir story in the same way that Girl On A Train and Gone Girl were those sort of domestic stories.

They weren't like police detective thrillers, they’re about things that happen within families or within bro...