What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.

I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.

It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding

She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked her opinion, slapped her on the knuckles figuratively speaking when she was on the wrong track, and acknowledged that she was right when she corrected him. Dammit, he had treated her like a human being.