She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.
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To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.
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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
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I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
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Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.
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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
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