1–What is the title of your latest release? DEAD WIND 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? DEAD WIND is book three of the Shana Merchant series, about a female investigator with the New York State Police who now lives in upstate New York’s Thousand islands. When a body is found at the base of a wind turbine on a small Canadian island, and the victim has ties to Shana’s new town, she must dredge up dark secrets and old grudges while also hunting the man who’s been terrorizing her for years. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Like all of the Shana Merchant novels, DEAD WIND is mainly set in the Thousand Islands of Upstate New York, but some of the most important action occurs on Wolfe Island across the border in Ontario, Canada. I visited Wolfe Island a few years ago and was floored by the landscape: it’s a very flat island, but it’s home to a wind farm, and those massive turbines felt otherworldly to me. I hadn’t even started writing the series at that point, but I knew that a turbine on the island would make an eerie crime…