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Just 50 minutes north of Auckland is Matakana, a small village known for its Farmer's Market, stylish boutiques and art galleries.
But to Madeleine Eskedahl, it's been the perfect setting for her popular crime novels.
Her first, Blood on Vines, was published in 2021 and earned a place on the Whitcoulls Top 100 list. She followed it up with Rings on Water two years later.
Now the third book in The Matakana Series is Angels of Clay, which sees a young Lotto millionaire found dead in a clay pit at a pottery retreat and links that emerge to the area's past history as a base for US Servicemen in World War II.
Madeleine is originally from the island of Gotland in Sweden and joins Kathryn to talk about her journey to bring Scandi Noir to New Zealand shores.
