NICOLA MONAGHAN chats to Paul Burke about her new thriller, WISH YOU WERE HERE, Dr. Sian Love, Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe, DNA.

WISH YOU WERE HERE: DNA doesn't lie. But what if the truth is dangerous?
Former police officer and DNA expert Dr Sian Love has settled into running her own detective agency and cohabiting with her partner, Kris. Her life is thrown into chaos once again when a teenage girl shows up at her office, claiming to be Courtney Johnson - a child who went missing in Nottingham over fifteen years ago - but refusing to allow Sian to test her DNA.
Wary but intrigued, Sian reluctantly revives the undercover skills she learned in her days in the police force and begins investigating. But revisiting the past has consequences...

NICOLA MONAGHAN Nicola Monaghan is the author of the Sian Love mystery series including the critically acclaimed Dead Flowers and, now, Wish You Were Here. Her debut novel The Killing Jar won a Betty Trask Award, the Authors' Club First Novel Prize and the Waverton Good Read. She taught creative writing for many years and is currently writing a thriller about that experience, as well as studying for her PhD at the University of Nottingham. www.nicolamonaghan.com

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Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023.

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