Many authors face the impending publication of a new book with conflicting emotions, the two most dominant being excitement and fear, and I was no different in the run up to the publication of THE LIE. My debut psychological thriller THE ACCIDENT was so well received last year I thought there was no way THE LIE would do half as well. I don’t know if that’s because there’s a certain amount of self preservation in hoping for the best and expecting the worst or if giving up my day job in Decembe...