Episode 3: Fleur McDonald

Join host John Purcell for a wide-ranging conversation with No.1 bestselling author Fleur McDonald about her latest novel, The Witness.

With twenty-seven novels and more than a million book sales to her name, bestselling crime author Fleur McDonald has always had a strong affinity with the land and the vast Australian outback. She talks openly about her life before writing - growing up on the Flinders Ranges, riding around Australia in her father’s semi-trailer, then moving to Western Australia to follow her dream of being a farmer. Fleur talks about her new crime series set in Kalgoorlie - The Prospect, The Missing and The Witness - and describes how she gets the very secretive people of Kalgoorlie to spill the beans.

Plus, find out what Fleur thinks about her much-loved, but occasionally uncontrollable, character Detective Dave Burrows.

Known for the authenticity of her writing, Fleur’s new crime series is for lovers of Jane Harper’s The Dry, Chris Hammer’s Scrublands and Michael Brissenden’s Rust.