I’m trying something different. It’s not a New Year’s resolution or anything like that; it’s something I’ve been working on it for a few months – I’m writing a stand-alone novel after completing the fourth in the Kate Fletcher series. When Bloodhound published my first novel, I knew that I had another one sitting on my computer which needed a bit of polishing, but which would probably be a suitable follow-up to Forgotten. Then, after Fracture was published, I started writi

People often ask me where I get my ideas from and whether what I write is based on my own experience. When I did my first creative writing course with the OU there was an emphasis on ‘writing what you know’ but I soon found that what I know is actually quite limited; what I can imagine gives me much more scope for stories. Of course, there are things in my books which are very much based on my life and there are characters who resemble people I have known, and I hope that ma