Episode 500! In Conversation with Val McDermid and Jo Sharp: This Door of the Seas

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Episode 500! In Conversation with Val McDermid and Jo Sharp: This Door of the Seas A huge milestone — this is episode 500 of Quick Book Reviews! Thank you to everyone who's been listening since the very start (sadly the first few episodes were lost in a platform move years ago, but the memories remain). To celebrate, I'm joined by Val McDermid and Jo Sharp to talk about This Door of the Seas , their first book written together, and the latest in Polygon's Darkland Tales series. It tells the true and largely forgotten story of the Darien Scheme — Scotland's disastrous 17th-century attempt to found a trading colony in Panama, an event so significant it helped push the country into union with…