Podcast and Interview with Daddy’s Girl Author Margie Orford

November 10th, 2009 by Claire

In this podcast, the Sunday Times’ Tymon Smith speaks to Margie Orford about her Clare Hart prequel, Daddy’s Girl:

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Meanwhile, Sue Grant-Marshall conducts The Weekender’s final crime fiction interview with SA’s krimi queen:

MARGIE Orford, queen of South African crime thrillers, has cracked it.
Her third book in the Clare Hart series, Daddy’s Girl, has delivered the “ball-crushing fear” she aims for. It’s what her readers have come to expect.
This novel is the most gut- wrenching of the series and she believes the third one establishes her as a professional writer. Michael Connelly, the acclaimed thriller writer, says it takes 10 books before you truly arrive, but Orford’s short-circuiting that .
Like Clockwork, her first thriller, sold 85000 copies in six months in Germany. She’s been translated into seven languages and is selling in nine countries.
“I’m frightening people all over the place,” she says with her quick wit and melodious laugh. Her nervous tension has been palpable for months as she anguished over the reception of Daddy’s Girl, so at last she can relax.