QBD Book Club: The Podcast QBD Books

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Jackie French to talk about her new book “The Sea Captain’s Wife”.About the story: When Mair McCrae follows her island tradition and hunts for a husband cast up on the beach, she has no notion that the man she rescues is not just Captain Michael Dawson, heir to a major shipping firm, but that he's obsessed by a 'ghost ship' carrying golden cargo. As Michael hunts for the 'Ghost' in his revolutionary new steamship, a string of my...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Fiona Lowe to talk about her gripping and thought-provoking new book “Accident”.When a car veers off the road with devastating consequences, the small wheatbelt town of Garringarup is left reeling, but no one's worlds are more shattered than Hannah's and Freya's. As disturbing details surrounding the accident emerge and questions pile up, ugly secrets rise to the surface. Mystery, lies and scandal - it's soon obvious nothing is ...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with A.J. Finn to talk about his brand-new title “End of Story”.“I'll be dead in three months. Come tell my story” – this is the chilling invitation from Sebastian Trapp, renowned mystery novelist, to his long-time correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. Welcomed into his lavish San Francisco mansion, Nicky begins to unravel Trapp's life story under the watchful eyes of his enigmatic wife and plainspoken daughter....

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew reunites with Kerryn Mayne to talk about her brand-new title “Joy Moody Is Out of Time”.On her twin daughters' twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody - proprietor of Bayside's premier laundromat - is found dead. Yet that is not the strangest thing happening behind the bright pink facade of Joyful Suds. For much of their lives, Joy has been telling Cassie and Andie one big, fat lie- that they are from the future, and that when they turn 21, they will...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with Vikki Wakefield to talk about her compulsively readable psychological thriller “To The River”.When a fire in a remote caravan community kills nine people, including 17-year-old Sabine Kelly's mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody and disappears. Recently made redundant from marriage, motherhood and her career, journalist Rachel Weirdermann has long suspected Sabine made her way ba...

In this week’s episode, our host Victoria Carthew sits down with our Dervla McTiernan to discuss our March Book of the Month, “What Happened To Nina”.In this story, Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. How far will Simon’s family go to keep him safe? How far will family go to get to the truth? If following the rules won’t get you any...