Bryan Dobson

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128 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4 Jul

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Brendan O'Connor · Summer Holiday Book Recommendations “It’s Sinead’s memoir, and she’s reading it – it’s very intimate” · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, actually, I did a panel, a book fair discussion in Ennis earlier this year with Cecilia Hearn, actually, and she suggested this might be a new career for me.

I could, you know, I could, because we involved reading some excerpts from favourite books.

I am.

I'm a big fan.

So these are the Magray books.

He wrote, between about 1930 and the early 1970s, 75 of these stories.

They're all pretty slim.

You get through them on holidays in a day or two.

So if you're going to bring them, bring a couple, you know, because you'll crack on through them.

Simeon is the chief inspector, detective chief inspector based at the police judiciary, I think they're the CID in Paris.

So he investigates serious crime.

It's always a murder.

It's never very clear why the individual was murdered.

There are individuals around them, but it's not clear why any of them might be a suspect.

And Simeon, by a process of, or Megre, by a process of kind of, he's

Observing them and deducing their relationships comes to a result at the end and the battery is caught.

There's so many different layers to this.

So many.

I mean, the one I read just for the purposes of this was my friend Meg Ray.

He goes to an island off the south of France to investigate a murder.

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