Behind the Book: The Jigsaw Man
The Jigsaw Man was born in the winter of 2017. It was a time when psychological thrillers were at their zenith and I wondered where were the stories featuring maverick detectives and serial killers?
The Jigsaw Man was born in the winter of 2017. It was a time when psychological thrillers were at their zenith and I wondered where were the stories featuring maverick detectives and serial killers?
The title of my book, Be Mine Forever would suggest a story about romance but nothing could be further from the truth. My story is about serial killers.
Imagine buying a home in a quiet neighborhood. In the basement is a barrel. It doesn’t belong to you. It’s too heavy to move.
I came up with the premise for The Last to See Her because I have sisters, and we’ve always had great relationships. One day, I started to think about worst case scenarios in a sibling relationship, and what would happen if two sisters went on a trip and only one returned?
Eddie Mahler, the lead detective in my debut police procedural THE SILENCED WOMEN, is haunted by his failure in a two-year-old case to prevent the murder of a young woman and to convict the man he knows to be her killer.
In my dream, they were in the base exchange, the equivalent of a general store at U.S. military outposts. I knew it was night, and I knew the place was closed.