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Ain’t no love in the heart of the city, and the countryside is just as bad. Murder is all over the map as four leading writers guide you into crime fiction’s dark heart.

A picturesque Dorset village harbours secrets and a killer in Death at the White Hart by Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall. Belinder Bauer’s extraordinary new novel The Impossible Thing is set in the shadowy world of egg trafficking. Yorkshire’s urban underbelly is the setting for a drugs turf war in AA Dhand’s taut thriller, The Chemist. Mel Pennant serves up a highly original protagonist from a quiet Birmingham suburb in her compulsive debut, A Murder for Miss Hortense. A remote Scottish island is the setting for Trisha Sakhlecha’s atmospheric new novel The Inheritance.

Simon Mayo will chair proceedings.