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.

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.