The Policeman Who Was Afraid of the Dark

This week I am celebrating the release of my new novel, which is also the title of this blog post, and I’m having a cocktail to celebrate. Cheers!

Where do you get your ideas? Do they take ages to smoulder in your head until they burst into flames and your hair is on fire? Or do you get a flash of inspiration and then forget about it because you are asleep, don’t have a notebook to hand or you’re just plain drunk? Is it a mixture of all of them, and like me you get the idea and then you have...