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 just...
Inspiration by Netflix About a year ago, on a lazy Friday night, I was flipping through my options on Netflix, looking for a new show to binge-watch. I’m a true-crime addict, so a trending documentary about the mysterious disappearance of a young woman from a hotel in...
You can’t hide from yourself.Something an author is often asked is, where do you get your ideas from? For me, it’s simply people and the whole gamut of emotion that comes with them. I’m fascinated by the internal and external influences that shape people. Most of us,...
I always feel a breathless anxiety when I spot a faded, dogeared poster on streetlights or community notice boards begging for information about missing relatives. You know the sort of thing, Have you seen my mother? I wonder about the stories and the people,...
