What Happened Next?
Featuring: Abir Mukherjee, Liam McIlvanney, Kate Rhodes, Eva Dolan and Lee Child.\n\nAlumni of Val McDermid\u2019s New Blood panels from years past tell us how it went with their second books - and their third, fourth and fifth.\n\nLiam McIlvanney appeared in 2010 with All the Colours of the Town acclaimed by Val as, \u2018authentic, atmospheric and ambitious.\u2019 Kate Rhodes\u2019 Crossbones Yard was picked in 2012, with Val praising the \u2018fresh voice of the protagonist\u2019.\n\nEva Dolan was a 2014 New Blood for Long Way Home. Val described her first standalone This is how it Ends as \u2018imbued with passion.\u2019 A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee in the class of 2016, was hailed as \u2018One of the most exciting debut novels I\u2019ve read in years.\u2019\xa0 Voracious reader, Lee Child, chairs.\n\nWhat Happened Next was recorded live at Harrogate International Festivals\u2019 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in July 2019.\n\nAbir Mukherjee's book Smoke and Ashes has been shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year 2020. Vote for Smoke and Ashes, and discover the shortlist at www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com\n\nPodcast music by Joseph McDade.