A version of this narrative is that foreign correspondents must be spies.

I started writing The Secessionist’s Wife around the beginning of 2021, back when our local schools were online due to the pandemic. It was only a few months after I had just published my second thriller Source of Deceit, and I was eager to get back into the fun of dreaming up characters and scenarios, rather than dealing with the logistics of the publication process. As a mom who still had a kid at home, I had no idea how long it would take ...

A Fun Thriller and an Ode to the Country That I Love

(Note: The following post was originally written and posted when I published my second novel, "Source of Deceit," in 2020.) When people hear “spy story,” they often think “James Bond.” The womanizing British assassin, also known as “007,” certainly looms large in the collective imagination, and he is indeed the reason I discovered the genre. As a high school kid, I loved Hollywood’s James Bond movies, but it was really the James Bond novels by the talented English author Ian