For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

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

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.