After two years in the Seattle Police Department, Detective Alice Madison has finally found a peace she has never known before. When a local burglary escalates into a gruesome murder, Madison takes charge of the investigation. She finds herself tracking a killer who has haunted the city for years – and whose brutality is the stuff of myth in high security prisons. As she delves deeper into the case, Madison learns that the widow of one of the victims is being stalked – is the killer poised to strike again? As pressures mount, Madison will stop at nothing to save the next innocent victim . . . even if it means playing a killer’s endgame.
Today to celebrate the recent release of Blood and Bone, Valentina takes the LifeOfCri.me 12 word challenge.
Rules
Answers should be complete sentences, and completed in no more than 12 words (unless otherwise stated)
Contractions count. It’s = 2 words.
LOC: Your latest release Blood and Bone is the third novel in your series featuring Seattle Detective Alice Madison. What can you tell us about it?
VG: It’s a new impossible case, a new killer, a new heartache.
LOC: How would you sum up Alice to someone new to your writing?
VG: Madison is a poker genius, child runaway who became a homicide detective.
LOC: How would you describe your writing process?
VG: The writing process is like daydreaming with a purpose and a dictionary.
LOC: What’s the most important thing you’ve learnt in your writing career?
VG: Focus on the writing: it is the only thing you can control.
LOC: Any tips for aspiring authors?
VG: Whatever it is you’re writing, first you must finish it.
LOC: Describe your perfect day
VG: It involves snow, huskies and cold weather. And probably chocolate too.
LOC: What’s the best book you’ve read in the last twelve months and why?
VG: Patrick Gale ‘A Place Called Winter’
VG: It’s a cross between Jane Austen and Jack London. Soulfully written.
and finally just for laughs……
LOC: Thanks to author Angela Marsons you have just woken up to find yourself on stage in front of the judges of a TV Talent show, with only, an ironing board, a box of matches and an Armadillo. What do you do?
VG: I would stand on the board, juggling lit matches, baffling the armadillo.
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