“There’s no place like home,” Dorothy said. But Thomas Wolfe said, “You can’t go home again.” Are both true? Is neither? I’m fascinated by home – the actual place and the people that embody it. I believe that home is like that parable about a river, how you can...
Em Kelton, the protagonist of my new BAD BOY BEAT, is a crime reporter with a nose for news – and a penchant for those on the wrong side of the law. This may prove useful when she suspects that a series of street-level killings are part of something larger. She’s too new to town to have covered some of Boston’s biggest crimes. However, these are certainly stories she would have loved to report on… or to solve!
The second installment of the Shona Sandison Investigations conjures a tale of forgotten crimes, the sinister rise of modern fascism in England, and the compromises and imperatives of journalism
If you want to be a writer, you need to read first. Read a lot. That advice coms from none other than Stephen King who says in his book On Writing: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have time (or the tools) to write.” King has also said that he reads -...
Domestic thrillers set out to unnerve you. The settings are familiar, the situations disconcerting. The ones I like best have me questioning what I would do should I ever find myself in the protagonist’s place. They have me frantically turning the pages, and making...
I’m an established, award-winning author of YA novels and trilogies, many with a dystopian bent, like the Slated trilogy and Mind Games; others delve into the supernatural, like my newest, a ghost story called Scare Me. But I’ve spent the last two years pursuing a...
