It’s the middle of January and Jo Spain has just overseen the publication of the first of three books she has coming out this year. The crime writer says she has always been a nerd, but growing up on Dublin’s northside, she was “smart enough not to let people know how smart I was”. On the latest Róisín Meets podcast, Spain talks to Róisín Ingle about happily leaving behind her decade-long career working with Sinn Féin at Leinster House to take up writing fulltime, after finding success with her Inspector Tom Reynolds series of novels. You can find all our podcasts on The Irish Times website. You can also subscribe to Róisín Meets on Apple, Android or Stitcher.

Source: The Irish Times January 19, 2018 06:22 UTC