Cold Pursuit - 1
I was delighted when Allison and Busby asked me to write a second novel featuring Fran Harman, the Detective Chief Superintendent from Kent. She'd had a bad time in her first outing, and I thought it was time to improve her lot. But since she's a serving police officer, whose work has become her life, I couldn't suddenly take her and Mark on a wonderful protracted honeymoon in an idyllic part of the world.
Instead I thought I'd give Fran some contemporary crimes to deal with - and what more contemporary than the weirdly named happy slapping? And why not make her a crime victim herself?
