1–What is the title of your latest release? JUST ANOTHER MISSING PERSON 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:…

As a reader, often, I’ll go for cozy mysteries rather than thrillers. There is, however, the occasional psychological thriller that lures me in – like Agatha Christie’s AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. What is it about psychological thrillers that attract you as a writer? I think for me a really good thriller has it all: a satisfying mystery with clues, a few shocks and twists, and my taste is to have them cast with rich characters, too, often with a love story threaded in.   Your book, WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME involves a relationship between a mother and son. What made you choose that as a central relationship for your story? Does that kind of bond just naturally ratchet up the tension? I think so – I think as most parents will do anything for their children, it immediately ups the stakes, but I think also teenagers keep secrets from their parents in a way spouses mostly don’t or can’t, which widens the mystery, too.   I love suspense novels in which the main character finds that she doesn’t really know somebody who is close to her as well as she thinks she does. Is there a little bit of…