Immortals

 Q: After considering killing off his hero, Lee Child is handing over the writing of the Jack Reacher Novels to his brother, Andrew. Would you consider killing your protagonists, and how do you envisage ending their careers?

-from Susan

Kill? Kill? For a crime writer, I’m pretty squeamish when it comes to my own protagonists, my creations, my fictional siblings. I bump off bad people easily and with pleasure, but Dani O’Rourke, or Katherine Hoff or Pippa? No way. In fact, I long to go back and fin...