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...

‘Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.’ Arthur Ashe. ‘You are never too old’, contradicts beautifully the idiom, ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks!’...

“Alison, what is your background as far as writing is concerned?” the lady in the corner asked during the book launch for A Justifiable Madness. I had anticipated this question...

While any writer not born with that proverbial spoon in their mouths will tell you that getting published is never easy nor guaranteed, the road to publishing Cargo took turns that...

Close to Home was born on a beach. In the Caribbean, in November 2014, to be precise. I’ve always been a huge reader of crime fiction and never more so...