Episode 216: The Trespasser Author Tana French

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Episode 216: The Trespasser Author Tana French

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Tana French, award-winning author of In the Woods, The Secret Place, and The Trespasser, talks to Daniel Ford about how her acting career influences her fiction, crafting characters like Antoinette Conway, and the importance of setting and atmosphere in murder mysteries. To learn more about Tana French, visit her official website or like her Facebook page. Photo credit: Kathrin Baumbach

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Aug 23, 2017

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