I don’t write from a premise. I generally start with two or three (usually incompatible) ideas that are bugging me and then ask: How can I build a story out of this mess?

Murder at the Beauty Pageant is book 12 in the best-selling Miss Underhay series. Set in 1930’s Devon, England the mysteries have a golden age feel, and are based in the area around Greenaway, Agatha Christie’s home. All of the books can be read as standalones,...

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.