During the Covid pandemic, a lot of people felt trapped at home, even though they could leave to, say, go to the supermarket. But imagine if you couldn’t leave? Or worse, if you needed to leave but couldn’t? That, writer C.J. Tudor says in the following email interview, was “…the final piece of the puzzle” in cracking her new thriller The Drift (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). Or, as she calls it, her new chiller.
While every parent worries about losing their child, the idea of seeing it happen, and being incapable of stopping it, is unimaginable. It’s also what happens to the main character in C.J. Tudor’s new thriller — er, “chiller” — The Other People (hardcover, Kindle). In the following email interview, Tudor discusses what inspired and influenced this new novel, as well as her second, The Hiding Place, which has just come out in paperback.