I find deciding on names for my characters to be a complex business. Main characters tend to already have their own names when they appear in my mind. Alfie from my second novel, Fracture, was never going to be called anything else even though I’m not entirely sure where the name came from. Kai, in Forgotten, was given the name because it is a Thai word for fever. It took me quite a while, trawling through a phrase book and looking on the internet, to find a word that I c