{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Page Turners with The Nile","title":"Page Turners with The Nile | Fleur McDonald - The Witness","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1102,"description":"Join host John Purcell for a wide-ranging conversation with No.1 bestselling author Fleur McDonald about her latest novel, The Witness.With twenty-seven novels and more than a million book sales to her name, bestselling crime author Fleur McDonald has always had a strong affinity with the land and the vast Australian outback. She talks openly about her life before writing - growing up on the Flinders Ranges, riding around Australia in her father’s semi-trailer, then moving to Western Australia to follow her dream of being a farmer. Fleur talks about her new crime series set in Kalgoorlie - The Prospect, The Missing and The Witness - and describes how she gets the very secretive people of Kalgoorlie to spill the beans. Plus, find out what Fleur thinks about her much-loved, but occasionally uncontrollable, character Detective Dave Burrows.Known for the authenticity of her writing, Fleur’s new crime series is for lovers of Jane Harper’s The Dry, Chris Hammer’s Scrublands and Michael Brissenden’s Rust. --- Page Turners with The Nile takes you behind the curtain of the literary world. Join bestselling novelist and publishing insider, John Purcell, as he digs past the promotional hype to uncover the real stories behind the books and the writers who create them. Expect revealing, insightful, and often surprising conversations about a writer's true sources of inspiration, their private path to publication, and their honest reflections on the world around them.  If you love books and want a deeper connection to the people who write them, this is your new favourite listen. Presented by The Nile, your leading online bookshop.Books by Fleur McDonald:Kalgoorlie   1. The Prospect (2025)   2. The Missing (2025)   3. The Witness (2026)Detective Dave Burrows   0.5. A Farmer's Choice (2018)   1. Fool's Gold (2018)   2. Without a Doubt (2019)   3. Red Dirt Country (2020)   4. The Shearer's Wife (2020)   5. Something to Hide (2021)   6. Deception Creek (2021)   7. Broad River...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ogUIBkJVv_RglHZXtI3p6rDD_zcU4UtkDpG2PfEZoYo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hODI1/YTk1MDE0YjkwZGJi/MDkyMjcyNGM1MDky/MGMyMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}