The Bitter Seasons (Living With the Dead Book 2)
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Sam Kovac, Nikki's former partner, is adjusting to her having left homicide to work cold cases. He and his new partner are trying to solve the case of a brutal double homicide having no apparent connection to Nikki's case.
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As the plot advances, new facts emerge about each case, and it becomes clear that very little was as it first seemed. Nikki Liska is a fascinating character. She's hard-boiled, yet compassionate. She must deal aggressively with suspects, witnesses, and occasionally, with other detectives. How did you conceive her? I wrote a scene were the heroine of the book was a victims' advocate who brought in a girl who'd witnessed a crime. She had to be interviewed and Sam Kovac's character just popped into my mind.
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Kovac had to leave the room with the advocate and couldn't leave the witness alone, so he opens the door and there's Liska. She sprang fully-formed from my thoughts. I really liked her the moment she popped up. She's a feisty little thing. And, I love Kovac's nickname for her, Tinkerbell on Steroids. I wanted to know more about her, so she developed over time in a very organic way. Did you interview women homicide detectives when you created her, or at any time afterwards?
I have interviewed female homicide detectives. At the time I created Nikki, there weren't very many women working homicide. I wrote Ashes to Ashes in the early 90s, and you would have thought there would be more, but that wasn't the case. I've spoken to women homicide detectives to get their take on what it was like coming up when there weren't many women on the job.
I got to understand the things they had to cope with and how they learned to circumvent the 'old boys' system.
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The Bitter Season contains deep insights into the lasting effects of child abuse, foster care, and other childhood issues. How did you learn so much about them? I did a ton of research. I've known some people in similar circumstances to those described in the book, but I can't talk about them because I'll give away the plot Laughter.
When you look at the random nature of some situations, you're struck by how one little circumstance could have resulted in an entirely different outcome. The Bitter Season and many of your other novels are considered psychological thrillers. Tell us how you define this genre and what makes it work for so many readers. For me, the psychology of the characters is everything.
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If I'm reading a book where people are doing things and I don't understand why they're doing them, I don't like it. I want to know what makes people tick.
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I want to know what factors brought them to that place in their lives where they must make a choice--either a good or bad one. I think the appeal of this kind of book is people want to try to understand motivation. It's amazing how many people are fascinated by serial killers. People want to understand how in the world that person came to be a serial killer. The Bitter Season is both plot-driven and character-driven.
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Will you talk about plot and character in your writing? I'm a real seat-of-the-pants writer.
I don't give a lot of thought to the plot's layout. I write from the characters' perspectives. I put them in a situation, let them go, and see where they take me. A plot emerges, but I don't map it out ahead of time. The plot is driven by the characters. Luckily, they seem to knit together a good story. You once said "I may have been born at the wrong time. When I was younger, there was no forensic psychiatry. I now think I might have ended up with the FBI. Now you can read through the blog in six month increments at your convenience.
Living With the Dead: If you decide to get year one, it won't hurt a thing to also get books one and two as well.
They aren't huge, and every download can help me in the rankings. That's intentional, as I wanted to convey a sense of realism and urgency. The fictional me in the story doesn't have time to worry about making sure every single thing is perfect.
That being said, sometime down the road I'll be paying an editor to do some cleanup. Because while people understand my reasoning, it still bugs them.
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Hell, it bugs me. Also, I'm planning on releasing a "Year Two" compilation with the release of book 5 in the fall, and I've got a contest going-- The Write Away Contest --that you may be interested in. If so, click on the link and check it out. Thanks to each and every one of you.