The Red Rabbit Hole

Today, Lisa has abducted author Anne Coates to talk about her books series and the relationship between sex workers and serial killers – yes, as Nicky has pointed out before the tree main vulnerable groups are joggers, hitch hikers and sex workers. Anne deep dives into an interview from the 90s with a sex worker, and how that inspired her book Dancers in the Wind.   https://linktr.ee/annecoat...

Finally, our hosts Lisa and Nicky receive a good Tripadviser review by Sophie Duffy for her Red Rabbit Hole stay! And it doesn’t stop there, the girls talk church crawling and more as they dive even deeper into Sophie’s new book D is for Death.   Facebook https://www.instagram.com/sophieduffy05/ http://www.sophieduffy.com/     Don't get left behind! Follow The Red Rabbit!   Pat...

This week, amazing author Sophie Duffy pops down the Red Rabbit Hole for a chat about her new book D is for Death. Your hosts take on the big subject of death. Talking about everything from what their funerals would look like – spoiler, Nicky’s is a bit spooky! And Lisa tackles the death positive movement. It’s a weird warren indeed, but let’s sombrely take a twisted dive with some research that r...

Having spent a ‘comfortable’ week down the Red Rabbit Hole, author Jane Jesmond remains in high spirits and hopes to be let out as soon as she completes her second episode. Lisa and Nicky might have other ideas, but we will have to jump down the rabbit hole once again to see what these two crazy literary abductors have in mind. This episode, we talk vaccines, a few more choice conspiracies and why...

Author Jane Jesmond has been abducted down the rabbit hole! She talks about her books, especially lingering on the germ filled A Quiet Contagion. She takes us back to the conspiracy of the Polio outbreak in Coventry 1957. Of course, you hosts Nicky and Lisa get a little waylaid with Covid, and more – their attention spans are really not what they used to be!   Website :  https://jane-jes...

Welcome to the second part of The Red Rabbit Hole’s deep dive into Jack the Ripper. Nicky presents the suspect her money is on, and Lisa talks victimology and more wild theories about other murders and even maybe another killer stalking the streets of Whitechapel at the same time as Jack. As best as they can, your hosts try to profile Jack as a killer, but go long, so make sure you have the necess...

Today, Nicky drags everyone down her own personal dark and twisted rabbit hole as she discusses one of her favourite (if you can call it that) true crime cases, that just like Helen of Troy lunched a thousand ships, inspired hundreds of books… Jack the Ripper. Having just had the 135th anniversary of the deaths last year, Nicky bravely walked the streets of London, and not to attract custom – she...

Happy Halloween! Do we have a treat for you! Your hosts, Lisa and Nicky, of Red Rabbit Hole fame have put together a little haunted radio play just for you. Now, there’s only the two of them and neither could be bothered to write a script so it’s pretty raw, unedited and is riddled with improv - but it didn’t turn out too horrific, so let’s dive in and have a listen…    Don't get left be...

Clare Swatman has been kept down the Red Rabbit Hole all week. Although your hosts, Nicky and Lisa, are trying to improve accommodation, they are still receiving lackluster Tripadviser reviews. All that aside, the ladies are talking, once again, about children killing children and Lisa has the most chilling case yet… grab your torches and lets deep dive down this particularly disturbing rabbit hol...

It wouldn’t be Halloween without a proper ghost story – so our host N V Peacock, also known as Nicky, is going to share one of hers with you. Pull the curtains, grab a blankie, and don’t blame us if you have nightmares!     Don't get left behind! Follow The Red Rabbit!   Patreon Facebook TikTok Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are travelling back down The Red Rabbit Hole, and in the dark, dank depths, there is another author, waiting to tell us all of her research rabbit holes, and of course have a natter with your hosts about true crime!   Clare Swatman is a bestselling author, and her newest thriller book, No Son of Mine (out 1st Dec 2024) took her down some doozies of a research rabbit holes.   This epis...

Tis the season to get spooky! As it’s the first Halloween down the Red Rabbit Hole, your hosts have come up with a few creepy treats and tricks just for you, lovely listener… We have 3 special spooky episodes every week until Halloween.   Today, Nicky and Lisa talk all things Halloween, from tricks that have been played on them, to dressing up and even what they would do in the zombie apocaly...

Part 2 of The Red Rabbit Hole’s trip across the Atlantic to lovely New England with Anngelle Wood of Crime of the Truest Kind. Found out whether it’s Lisa or Nicky who wins the Lizzie Borden case, and prepare to go well beyond our normal time with bonus true crime talk and of course, a few nuggets to make you smile along the way. Let’s dig in, get lost, then pop out where we least expect the rabbi...

Oh no, we just can’t stop Nicky and Lisa burrowing where they shouldn’t be! This time they have dug all the way across the Atlantic and are invading a US podcast Crime of the Truest Kind with the lovely Anngelle Woods. Still reeling over their Dexter battle, your hosts have decided to discuss the notorious New England crime of Lizzie Borden. They are re-enacting a trial with Anngelle as the judge....

Author L J Shepherd (no relation to Lisa) is safe and unharmed after her week long stay in the Red Rabbit Hole, in fact, she’s all fired up to talk about true crime and other research rabbit holes she’s dived down for her book The Trials Lila Dalton. Falling down rabbit holes such as the 90s, the satanic panic, and so much more, your hosts Nicky and Lisa traverse the a myriad of subjects...

Will the abductions ever end? It shouldn’t be a surprise anymore that your hosts Lisa and Nicky have taken another author and dragged her down into the dark depths of the Red Rabbit Hole. This time it’s author L J Shepherd (no relation to Lisa!). She talks about her book The Trails of Lila Dalton, her career as a barrister, and the true crime cases of The London Nail Bombings, pick up artists...

Bestselling author Lauren North has been captive in the Red Rabbit Hole for a week and is now willing to talk about her fearful encounter at a petrol station – and no, it’s not about the price of petrol these days! Lisa puts forward one of the most bizarre and daring child abductions she could find, and Nicky (not to be out done) talks about a case where the abducted child eventually managed to br...

Today, your eager little hosts have kidnaped/ invited bestselling author Lauren North (also known as L C North) down the red rabbit hole. They talks about her latest thriller, She Says She’s My Daughter, and true crime cases of child abductions such as Madeline McCann, and discuss how the media react to children going to missing, and how the whole family can be affected. Touching on the freedom of...

Here come the clowns! Love them or hate them, you can’t escape those flamboyant, make-up covered tumblers! Clowns are been around for a long time. Nicky and Lisa take you down the deep rabbit hole, in this brand new Weird Warren, of their history and what makes them scary – spoiler alert, we can’t just blame Stephen King! Covering their local clown scare with the Northampton Clown from 2013 to the...

Poor Mark Stay. Bundled into a sack and then held hostage by our hosts – they won’t even splurge for name brand cereal. On the plus side though, Nicky and Lisa get to talk again to Mark about his work, fantasy books, magic and anything else that crosses their dark little minds. Let’s dive in, and see if Mark manages to escape… Episode links: https://markstaywrites.com/ Mark’s socials: Facebook Twi...

Oh no, they’ve gone and done it again! Lisa and Nicky have abducted another unsuspecting author to drag down the Red Rabbit Hole. Mark Stay is a screenwriter and novelist. He talks today about his Witches of Woodville series along with how he got into writing, his films and so much more. Trigger alert – if you are frightened of scarecrows and knowing a bit too much about what people have for break...

Ding, ding, ding – it’s round 2! You’re back again! We knew you would be. Who could resist the conclusion of Lisa’s Top Trumps of Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter Morgan vs Pedro Rodrigues Filho. It’s still all to play for as Lisa and Nicky seem neck and neck in the game? Who will win? Well. Nicky did point out that Lisa made the cards, so she has a distinct advantage, but will Nicky be able to use her super...

Your hosts, Nicky and Lisa, have kept author Alis Hawkins captive for a week now. She seems unharmed and in reasonably good spirits, even though she was given mud coffee and was randomly tortured with bad poetry. After diving deeper in her Oxford Mysteries books, along with a few of her other novels, the lovely ladies of the Red Rabbit Hole then try to pitch some welsh true crime at Alis – who wil...

Ever played Top Trumps? Well, Nicky hasn’t! Lisa puts an end to this tragedy in this episode when she creates a Top Trumps game about the media named real serial killer Dexter Morgan Pedro Rodrigues Filho and of course the beloved literary and TV character Dexter Morgan. Each takes a card, either literary character Dexter or real vigilante Pedro and they start comparing stats – who will win? And w...

Welsh author Alis Hawkins joins our hosts down the Red Rabbit Hole this week. Alis writes historical crime thrillers and mysterious and has journeyed though many a red rabbit hole, and even a weird warren or three, for her research. She talks about her books, The Oxford Mystery Series, and manages to divide Nicky and Lisa on which side of history they are on with the Skeleton Army – spoiler alert,...