The BBC World Service airs World Book Club with internationally best-selling thriller writer Harlan Coban on Sunday, May 4 at 1206 EDT. Arts Hour will be dropped to accommodate.

World Book Club is an unclocked 53 minutes. Stations in automation will need to change their automation.

Description: Internationally best-selling thriller writer Harlan Coban talks to Harriett Gilbert in front of a live audience about his gripping novel Six Years. The novel explores the depth and passion of a lost love and the dark secrets that lie at its heart.

Jake Fisher, a lovelorn professor of political science searches out the girl of his dreams who suddenly dumped him for another man six years ago and begged him not to contact her. When he finds himself entangled with a bunch of ruthless killers and criminals from the underworld Jake knows he should back off but passion for his lost love draws him further into a terrifying web of intrigue and murder. Hear what Harlan has to say about how he creates such tightly coiled plots and why the sound of an upstairs toilet flushing is the scariest noise you can hear.

World Book Club is an evergreen program and can be downloaded from the Arts and Culture section of the BBC Partner Site.