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7 June 2022<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Lesley McEvoy was born and bred in Yorkshire and has had a passion for writing in one form or another all her life. The writing took a back seat as Lesley developed her career as a Behavioural Analyst \/ Profiler and Psychotherapist, setting up her own consultancy business and therapy practice.<\/p>\n

Lesley\u2019s work in some of the UK\u2019s toughest prisons was where she met people whose lives had been characterised by drugs and violence and whose experiences informed the themes she now writes about. Deciding in 2017 to concentrate on her writing again, Lesley produced her debut novel,\u202fThe Murder Mile<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lesley’s latest book is The Killing Song<\/em><\/a> which was published by Zaffre on 12 May. Lesley’s books are also available to borrow on the Suffolk Community Libraries catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Who were your heroes as you were growing up and when did you first start to write?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a child during the 60\u2019s, my literary heroes were of their time. I had all the Enid Blyton books and devoured all the childhood classics like Treasure Island<\/em><\/a> and Arabian Nights<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t remember a time in my life when I didn\u2019t write. As a child, I remember writing stories and then sticking the pages together to make a \u2018book\u2019. I suppose at about 5 years old, I realised that books were written by people and when I was in reception class, the teacher asked everyone what they wanted to do when they grew up. I said I wanted to be like Enid Blyton and write books. Writing was a hobby all my life and I started seriously querying agents and publishers from the age of 19.<\/p>\n

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How does an idea for a new book come to you and how do you know if it is worth committing time to? Are there several ideas in play at the same time then one becomes the plot?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For me a plot always begins with a \u2018What if?\u2019 I hear a story on the news or read something in the paper and think \u2018that\u2019s interesting\u2026.I wonder what if\u2026?\u2019 It can bubble away for weeks, months or in the case of The Murder Mile<\/em> several years. I also always start with the end in mind. Once I know how it will end and I have the \u2018How done it\u2019, I start to develop the rest. Yes, often there are several ideas and they can weave together to form a complicated series of plot lines, as happened in The Killing Song,<\/em> or one can prove stronger than the others and forms the backbone of the story.<\/p>\n

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I read a terrifying account of an encounter you had during your work in psychotherapy that led to the plot idea for The Murder Mile<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Did that actually happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes! That episode triggered the idea for my debut novel. It was while carrying out a hypnotherapy session with a client, that I encountered an \u2018alter personality\u2019. A really dark character, that my client had no knowledge or memory of. It was as shocking as it was real and started a series of questions for me, which led to the plot for The Murder Mile<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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How did the character of Forensic Psychologist Dr Jo McCready take shape in your mind?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the years, I experimented with various protagonists and began to develop my writing \u2018voice\u2019. Eventually, I found that writing in the first person flowed better for me. Although technically, it does present an author with certain challenges. In the adage of \u2018write what you know\u2019, creating a protagonist that was a therapist, or in that line of work seemed like the most natural fit and it was a world I inhabited, so gave me a wealth of experiences to draw on but I made Jo McCready different from myself.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a Forensic Psychologist. I\u2019m a behavioural analyst and therapist, which is slightly different. But giving her a Forensic background, put her in a position to get drawn into criminal investigations, assisting the police in a way that would be unique to her line of work. That gave me a structure, a mechanism to put her at the heart of the plots. After that, she started to develop a story of her own \u2013 though admittedly with similarities to my own life.<\/p>\n

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Jo returns in your new book The Killing Song<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Can you tell us a little about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jo is called in to help the police investigate an attack on passengers at a busy train station. At the same time, she\u2019s asked by a grieving family to look again into the death of their son, a prominent local artist, whom they believe was murdered. It\u2019s an intricate weaving of various plot lines, that leads to an explosive and (I hope) surprising conclusion.<\/p>\n

The Killing Song<\/em> is book 2 in the Jo McCready crime series, but it needed to stand-alone too as people often read a series out of order. The book opens 6 months after The Murder Mile<\/em> and finds Jo suffering from the fallout of how the last book ended. Not wanting to give any spoilers, but she\u2019d gone through a traumatic experience at the end of book 1 and I wanted her to be fallible and human. Not a super-hero, immune to such things. I also wanted to explore how someone who works with psychology can find it very difficult to admit that they\u2019re struggling with stress or panic attacks too and look at how that unfolds.<\/p>\n

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Is there anything you can share with us about your latest project?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Book 3 is about a series of murders that seem to be committed by a copycat, re-creating the killing spree of a man now serving life in prison. From prison, Jo receives an invitation from the killer, offering to help her catch his imitator. But is his proposition all that it seems? Jo doubts it, but as the body count rises, she can\u2019t ignore his tantalising bargain. What does he really want and can Jo find out before anyone else dies?<\/p>\n

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One book, piece of music or work of art that everyone should experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I always find these type of questions very difficult to answer, because art, literature and music are so personal. What works for me may not for someone else. In books, I suppose for me, as a proud Yorkshire writer, then a definitive piece of literature would be Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/a> by Emily Bronte. I grew up near to Haworth and the village is very close to my heart and features in my Jo McCready books. The landscape so vividly described, evokes a powerful sense of the wild ruggedness of the moors that left a big impression on me. An area I grew up in and a place I love.<\/p>\n

Wuthering Heights<\/em> is a complex book that leaves a different impression on the reader depending on when they read it. As a teenager, I regarded it as a powerful love story \u2013 often described as the greatest love story of all time. Reading it later, as an adult, it\u2019s themes of brutal revenge and domestic cruelty are more evident. It’s a book that I think grows with the reader and matures and develops the more you read it.<\/p>\n

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What is the funniest or strangest reaction to your books from a reader?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lady confessed that while reading The Murder Mile<\/em>, she had to ask her husband to come to bed with her while she sat and read at night, as she was too frightened to read it on her own. She laughed when she told me and said her husband continues to tease her about it.<\/p>\n

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What is the best piece of advice you were ever given in life or writing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best piece of advice on writing, is to read. You can\u2019t understand what makes a book work, unless you read. Second, is to just do it. Sit down and start to write. Write every day, even if it\u2019s just for a few minutes \u2013 but get into the discipline of doing it.<\/p>\n

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Can you tell us one thing about yourself that your readers may not know?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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