Four Questions With… Merry Jones

Few writers will have more novels published in 2013 than Merry Jones.

Winter Break, the third in her series of crime thrillers featuring Iraq War veteran Harper Jennings (following Summer Session and Behind the Walls), was released in January. In it, a pregnant Jennings sees a young man dragged into the woods near her house, but the police write it off as kids playing around — or Jennings’ hormones. She knows it’s something more.

The Trouble with Charlie, a standalone thriller, was released in...