Sam Blake (AKA Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin) is best known for the hugely successful Cat Connolly series of crime novels - she talks to RTÉ Arena above.
Her latest book The Dark Room is a thriller focusing on a female film producer and her documentary-maker husband, who flee to rural Cork from London, when the subject of his latest documentary is found burned to death...
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