Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.