Setting has always been a key feature in my books. Fromthe Cascade mountains and wilderness of Desolation Pointtothe small town in Maine that I created for Tumbledown, location has been as much a character as any of the humans in the cast. With No Good Reason and the Dark Peak series, I’ve come full circle back to the Peak District where my first novel Snowbound was set. Although I enjoyedevery minute of research I did for my two America-based books, returning to an environment I know and lov...