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It\u2019s the middle of January and Jo Spain has just overseen the publication of the first of three books she has coming out this year. The crime writer says she has always been a nerd, but growing up on Dublin\u2019s north side, she was \u201csmart enough not to let people know how smart I was.\u201d\n\nSpain talks to R\xf3is\xedn Ingle about happily leaving behind her decade-long career working with Sinn F\xe9in at Leinster House to take up writing fulltime, after finding success with her Detective Tom Reynolds series of novels. She also talks about growing up poor in Belcamp, a part of Dublin that the Celtic Tiger missed, being one of the only people with a north side accent at Trinity College and her writing technique, which enables her to \u201cbang out\u201d the first draft of a novel in four weeks.