I recently wrote an essay for the wonderful CrimeReads site about my experience moving from writing romance to writing suspense. It's been such a treat to stretch my wings and hone new skills in an unfamiliar genre. But it wasn't quite as unfamiliar as you'd think....
When I started thinking of my second Victoria Helen Stone book, I knew I wanted to write a family mystery, a story of secrets. I just didn’t know what the secret should be. I puzzled it over for a couple of weeks, and then I had a strange dream: I dreamed that...
Half Past takes place in two main locations: a small town in rural Iowa and the coast of Big Sur. I didn’t have to do any research on the first location. My family is from a tiny farming community in southern Minnesota. I only had to look up a couple of details to get...