Edel Coffey On How Writing Crime Fiction Is Her Source Of Escapism
Feb 16, 2026
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Author Edel Coffey has published her third novel ‘In Glass Houses’.
She joins Matt on The Last Word to talk about why writing crime fiction appeals to her, why female readers are drawn to the genre and how her time as a journalist has stood to her when coping with the pressure of meeting deadlines.
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