Author Chris Whitaker: ‘Liz Nugent is one of those writers who inspires you to be fearless, to disregard tropes and trends’

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Chris Whitaker is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels. His debut Tall Oaks won the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award. We Begin at the End won the CWA Gold Dagger, the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year and the Ned Kelly Award, among others. His new book All the Colours of the Dark is published by Orion.