Jacqueline Bublitz’s internationally best-selling debut novel Before You Knew My Name arrived with the bold tagline: “[t]his is not just another novel about a dead girl”. Praised for its subversion of women in crime fiction being silenced victims, its follow-up Leave the Girls Behind takes asimilarly sophisticated approach to centering female victims, not their perpetrators.

Chris Whitaker’s phenomenally successful All the Colours of the Dark has won similar praise for putting the action and heart on what its cast of missing girls leave behind. It has won praise from the likes of Gillian Flynn, Richard Osman and Bonnie Garmus and the I News critic called it “the best thriller I've ever read”.

They join Fiona Sussman to discuss the compassion, intellect and plotting that went into creating their masterful thrillers that readers adore.