Dervla McTiernan was an Irish lawyer for 12 years. After the global financial crash, she moved to Australia and became a crime-writer. After a short-story was nominated for a prestigious prize, her debut ‘The Ruin’ achieved great success, and she’s become a runaway bestseller.
Her new novel, ‘The Murder Rule’, looks at The Innocence Project, which looks to exonerate wrongly convicted criminals. Only this book turns it on its head when a woman doesn’t want to save a man on death row… but bury him.
We talk about her extremely thoroughly planned writing days, how she’s always looking to grow and change as a writer. You can hear how new editing tricks, how she gets to know her characters, and exactly how hard it is to take on a novel.
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