1–What is the title of your latest release? My latest release is A COLLECTION OF LIES, the fifth in the Kate Hamilton Mystery series.   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Kate Hamilton and DI Tom Mallory are honeymooning in Devon where a local history museum had hired them to trace the provenance of a bloodstained dress said to belong to a murderous Victorian lacemaker. Exactly Kate’s kind of mystery—until the donor of the dress, a man who lives as a Victorian gentleman, is found dead in a pool of blood. As Kate and Tom race to find the murderer, they learn that old secrets can be deadly—and this killer isn’t going to come quietly.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Kate and Tom are on their honeymoon, so I asked myself where they would go. Neither of them are beach people, and since the entire series is set in the British Isles, I had lots of amazing spots to choose from. Would they choose the Scottish Highlands? A picturesque village on the Cornwall coast? The lush, green Irish countryside? I decided on Devon, specifically the national park known as Dartmoor…

Tell me about your choice of setting for this Kate Hamilton mystery series. (setting, history, characters) THE SHADOW OF MEMORY is set in the fictional village of Long Barston in Suffolk as well as the Suffolk coastline, site of a holiday camp where Kate’s friend Vivian Bunn spent her girlhood summers. Near the camp is Netherfield Sanatorium, a derelict Victorian mental hospital being converted into deluxe flats and townhouses. The developer and board of directors have asked Kate and her colleague Ivor Tweedy to appraise a fine collection of antiques that once filled the institution, including a painting attributed to the fifteenth-century Netherlandish painter Jan Van Eyck. But is the painting what it seems to be? And could there be a connection between the hospital and the mysterious deaths of a doctor and his wife? Why Suffolk? I fell in love with the British Isles when I was a student at St. Clare’s College, Oxford. Writing a book means spending a lot of time in the setting you’ve chosen, and Suffolk is one of England’s hidden gems—England the way you picture it in your mind. The “Suffolk Pink” cottages with their thatched roofs and the ancient villages with their cobbled…