Bestselling author Deanna Raybourn talks history, mystery, and crime

It’s not often you find out that you’re related to your guest, but that’s what happened in the new episode when I was joined by award-winning New York Times bestselling author, Deanna Raybourn, author of the Veronica Speedwell and Lady Julia Grey mysteries. We talk about how Anne Boleyn helped inspire her love of history, our love for Murder on the Orient Express and Suzannah Lipscomb’s podcast, Catherine de Medici and Marie-Antoinette, what we can learn from the Victorians, the ways in which anti-Semitism shifts in novels written on either side of 1945, and how Deanna writes, researches, and creates her hugely popular historical novels. Some strong language. Some spoilers (for books written in the 1930s, but spoilers nonetheless)