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With more than two million copies of her books sold worldwide, number one bestseller Clare Mackintosh is the multi-award-winning author of I Let You Go, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and the fastest-selling title by a new crime writer in 2015. It also won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2016.
Both Clare's second and third novels, I See You and Let Me Lie, were number one Sunday Times bestsellers. All three of her books were selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club. Clare's latest novel, After the End, was published in June 2019 and spent seven weeks in the Sunday Times hardback bestseller chart.
Clare's latest thriller, Hostage, will be published in June 2021.
Together, Clare's books have been published in more than forty countries. Clare is patron of the Silver Star Society, a charity based at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, which supports parents experiencing high-risk or difficult pregnancies. She lives in North Wales with her husband and their three children.
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Your background is interesting—you went from police detective
to journalist to novelist. What inspired your career transitions and
how do you think the three relate?
I spent 12 years in the police and loved every minute of it, but it
became increasingly hard to balance a busy career with life as a
mother of three young children. I took a career break and reinvented
myself as a freelance feature writer, and at the same time I wrote
I Let You Go. I signed a two-book publishing deal the month before
I was due back at work, so I handed in my notice and never went
back.
The thread that links all three types of work is storytelling: as
a detective I told victim's stories on their behalf; collected witnesses' stories to support allegations of
crime. My job was to pull together all the threads of a story and present it to a court in such a way that
they could decide on a verdict. In that way it wasn't dissimilar to the stories I now present to readers.
Given your experience in the police force, do you find it necessary to do additional research before
writing? If so, what kind of research do you do?
I didn't need to do much research for I Let You Go, although I did check some procedure with a ...
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