The Enduring Appeal of Rebecca and Cornwall Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.So begins one of the greatest novels of romantic suspense ever written. The first time I read those words in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, I wondered briefly what and where Manderley was, but I didn’t give it too much […]
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The Line Between Fiction and Reality
I’m often asked about the research process that creates the texture in my books. These stories are international: high-octane chases, mysteries, and adventure tales, layered and threaded within the politics, cultures, sights, and smells of foreign countries, many of them in the developing world—thrillers that follow Vanessa Michael Munroe, a character who’s a chameleon that […]
See What I Say? The Power of Descriptive Writing
See What I Say? The Power of Descriptive Writing Once, describing the silly little Argentinian films starring Eva Duarte years before she became Evita Perón, Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes wrote that those movies were so bad; they seemed to have been filmed before the invention of cinema. Oddly enough, though, at some point, the film […]