1–What is the title of your latest release?
2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
Julia is a dedicated police officer and mother: so what happens when she finds a criminal in the back of her car, threatening to expose her daughter’s worst secret unless she becomes corrupt?
3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
I look at a map! Very uninteresting answer, I know, but I usually pick out somewhere fun. This was Portishead in the UK.
4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
Oh for sure!
5–What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Workaholic, loyal, empathetic.
6–What’s something you learned while writing this book?
That the police water cooler banter really is just like other offices!
7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I am a prolific redrafter – I did nine of Just Another Missing Person!
8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Chocolate fondant cakes
9–Describe your writing space/office!
I work in coffee shops almost exclusively!
10–Who is an author you admire?
Lisa Jewell
11–Is there a book that changed your life?
For sure, Lisa Jewell’s Ralph’s Party: she taught me it was okay to write about life as I saw it, rather than life through a literary lens.
12–Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
Oh, I will remember that moment for the rest of my life. Three failed novels, three failed submissions, and finally: an offer from Penguin UK!
13–What’s your favorite genre to read?
The intersection of thrillers and women’s fiction.
14–What’s your favorite movie?
The Sixth Sense
15–What is your favorite season?
Summer
16–How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
As low key as possible!
17–What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Hijack on Apple TV.
18–What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Thai!
19–What do you do when you have free time?
I go in the bath – haha!
20–What can readers expect from you next?
My next book is about a siege…
JUST ANOTHER MISSING PERSON by Gillian McAllister
A Novel
From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes a new heart-stopping thriller in which a missing-person case unravels deeper, darker secrets that hit too close to home and can only lead to more danger for the detective and an impossible moral choice: What will she do?
There’s a man out there. His weapon isn’t a gun, or a knife. It’s a secret.
OLIVIA:
22 years old.
No history of running away.
Last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley.
And not coming back out again.
Missing for one day and counting . . .
JULIA;
The detective heading up the case.
She knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her daughter.
But Julia has no idea how close to home this case is going to get.
Because her family’s safety depends on one thing: Julia must not find out what happened to Olivia and must frame somebody else for her murder . . .
What would you do?
Mystery Woman Sleuth | Thriller Domestic [William Morrow, On Sale: August 1, 2023, Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9780063252394 / eISBN: 9780063252400]
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About Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister is the Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling author of Everything But The Truth, Anything You Do Say, No Further Questions, The Evidence Against You and How To Disappear.
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