Nadine Matheson, author of 'The Jigsaw Man' - Balancing work and writing, depicting your home town, and accidentally going back to school

Writer's Routine

English - February 25, 2022 00:10 - 41 minutes - 57.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 263 ratings
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Nadine Matheson is busy. Busy, busy, busy. She works as a criminal lawyer, has found time to go back to school, and publish her debut novel, 'The Jigsaw Man'.

The book is a police procedural about Inspector Henley, tasked with finding the killer of bodies found along the River Thames in London. It's set in the area she grew up and we talk about why she wanted, and how she managed, to accurately portray her ends of the City.

We talk about how she gets inspiration from her work as a criminal lawyer, how comic books help her plot, and why she ended up back to school accidentally.

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