‘Why? Do you know why this happened, Johana?’ These are the questions I grew up with. Absolutely not referring to an uncle’s skeleton found buried under the old oak tree...

For someone like me who has always bucked against tradition for the sake of tradition and has always had a complete distaste for labels and categorisation, it’s terribly tempting to...

The Last Hour is the first novel that came to me almost fully formed in one image. The hero, Ballista, was standing on top of the Mausoleum of Hadrian. The...

Avon, the imprint of Harper Collins, actually came to me with the idea for Hold My Hand. That might sound an unusual way to end up writing a book, where the...

I’ve always loved stories. Such a short sentence, that one. It feels inadequate, but superlatives sound insincere, so that’s what I’m left with. I learned to read when I was...

Recently, I was in the green room at a book festival, trying to discreetly slip the cord of a microphone down my top and out below the hem of it...

As a writer of a successful police procedural series, I’d like to say I thought long and hard before deciding to write a standalone psychological thriller. I didn’t. I jumped...

It’s Valentine’s week but in the book world, love is spreading in a very different way – this is a week of new releases for my Cat Connolly trilogy. Just...

I’m excited. My debut crime novel, The Abandoned, is published by a leading crime publisher Bloodhound Books. I’m also nervous because I’m now asked how I got here and what...

In 2002, I retired from the Secret Service. No, no, not Her Majesty’s Secret Service—the United States Secret Service. Unlike our namesake in Britain, the U.S. Secret Service is a...