Behind the Book: JA Jance’s Den of Iniquity

When I moved to Seattle in the early eighties, it was called the Emerald City,  and it was lovely.  I lived in two separate condo buildings on Second Avenue at the north end of the Denny Regrade and worked downtown in an office building at Sixth and...

Behind the Book: What Lies in Darkness

What happens when a teenage girl regains consciousness after a horrible car accident, only to discover her entire family has disappeared? This question, this fear, is loosely one that’s haunted my nightmares most of my life: waking up or coming home and realizing that my entire family is gone.

Behind the Book: Enemy of the State

As is often the case with second books in a series, Enemy of the State was never supposed to exist. The first book, The Killing Room, was initially written to be a standalone. The book opens with a businessman waking up in a hotel room that isn’t his to find a dead...