A number of years ago – never mind what number – my editor asked me if I’d like to start another series, something else that would have a paranormal bent to it. But it shouldn’t just involve regular walking-around people. She has one unbreakable caveat, however: “NO ZOMBIES!”
Frederick Forsyth’s Edgar Award-winning thriller, The Day of the Jackal, inspired me to write.
Since downloading the apps in my early twenties, I’ve been fascinated by the perils of online dating.
My first inspiration for THE COMING DARKNESS came from memories of being an interpreter and translator in the 1980s, a distant era before the cult of economic growth had properly begun mincing the natural world to a fine grey powder of disappointment.
It’s always assumed that I base my novels on specific cases that I’ve worked on but the truth is that I’m more of a magpie, picking up an interesting fact of a case or a particular personality trait of a client and building my story from there.
When the cover for my newest novel-His Other Wife -was revealed, a reader commented on my Facebook site. ‘How do you do it?’ she asked and she followed this with, ‘You are amazing.’ Always lovely words to read. She was referring to the fact that I had only...
