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I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
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I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
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I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
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I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
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I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
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I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.
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I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.
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Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.
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I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
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Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
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