Monthly archive - February 2022

As a suspense writer, I'm often diving headfirst into the less-palatable parts of the human psyche. Give me a manipulative genius or a villainous heartthrob any day. A social climber with a slightly-malicious agenda? Yes, please. This is the kind of stuff my debut novel, The Night She Went Missing, is made of.

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." It is one of the most memorable literary payoffs in history, the end of F Scott Fitzgerald's defining novel of the 20th century, The Great Gatsby.

U.K. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage's The Owl and the Nightingale (Princeton Univ., May) is a translation of a medieval English debate poem.  Read more