I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.