And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

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