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bestseller list. “It was amazing but so surreal. I was waking up to emails from my editor saying: “Reese is calling.”The books are all twisty closed circle whodunnits that play with themes of class, family fall-outs and damaged friendships., her most recent, is about a resident who goes missing from a grand but spooky apartment block in the French capital. Does she remember when she decided to switch to crime? “It’s hard to remember exactly.
She didn’t know who the murderer was? “No, I haven’t known the murderer for any of my books when I start writing. I’ve thought I knew who it was but with every one it has changed. And that’s quite exciting because it really feels like the book is alive. As a writer, I live for the moments when something happens that I wasn’t expecting, even though writing in that way can sometimes be quite stressful.
So, she doesn’t plot? “No, I do, a lot in fact, but I do it as I go along, and of course I go back and change things to make them fit afterwards. With a murder mystery the reader has certain expectations, that this is going to be a specific type of puzzle, with breadcrumbs that they can follow, so there does have to be a strict structure.
Crime writing has been thriving for a long time but has also benefited from the pandemic, with crime and thriller sales up 18 per cent in volume from March to October 2021 compared with 2019, according to Nielsen BookScan UK .
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