In Conversation with Rachel Abbott

I’ve just spent a week chatting with Rachel Abbott.

Rachel’s novel, Only the Innocent, was the second best selling title of 2012, and the follow up, The Back Road, looks as if it’s going to emulate if not better that performance.

The conversation was arranged and later edited by Laurence Patterson of Crooked Cat Publishing, and consisted of a series of emails in which we compared note on our different approaches to many aspects of crime writing.

Rachel is very organised when it comes to penning her works, whereas I’m haphazard, although we do have some common ground in that we both work to a plan

The other thing we have in common is we’re both still up there in the Amazon UK Kindle British Detectives chart. Only The Innocent and The Back road are in the top three, and I have The Summer Wedding Murder right behind them, with The Filey Connection sitting further back, around the number 9/10 slot.

I’m not going to give any of it away here, but for me the experience was enjoyable and informative.

You can read the full conversation here.