Q16 - What’s next?

A - I have been planning my next book for most of 2002 and I hope to start writing it in January. There will be the same mix of courtroom drama and family breakdown, but there is also a wider cast of characters and suspects than in Final Witness (The Stepmother). Additionally new themes lie at the heart of the plot. I have long been interested in the idea of historical events affecting present lives, and in my new book a murder in a manor house outside Oxford is connected to events in France at the end of 1944 when a family was murdered by soldiers seaching for an ancient crucifix of great value and religious significance.