Episode 45: An A-level in murder - with Lin Le Versha

<p>We all remember the jealousies and rivalries of our school years. The gossip swirls, rumours grow and take a life of their own - no one is immune. Add a musical genius from a sheltered background, suffocated by a protective mother's love, and you have the ingredients for <a href='https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59116137-blood-notes'>Lin Le Versha</a>'s superb debut novel,<a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Notes-Lin-Versha-ebook/dp/B09LMNT5K3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=32RBFV9CTXIV5&keywords=blood+notes+lin+le+versha&qid=1637514118&sprefix=blood+notes%2Caps%2C196&sr=8-1'> </a><a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Notes-Lin-Versha-ebook/dp/B09LMNT5K3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=32RBFV9CTXIV5&keywords=blood+notes+lin+le+versha&qid=1637514118&sprefix=blood+notes%2Caps%2C196&sr=8-1'>Blood Notes</a>, set in a fictional sixth form college in Suffolk. Lin tells Rebecca and Adrian how her experience of working in education helped her to create this world, into which comes Steph Grant, a former detective trying to rebuild her life following bereavement and a career-ending error of judgement. </p> <p>Also in this week's Hobcast Book Show, we reveal how the wider publishing world has reacted to the recent shake-up in the audiobook industry, and we explore how one indie bookshop in Wales has launched an appeal to keep its doors open.</p> <p></p>