The Last Lie She Told by K.J. McGillick
Lies and misdirection rule the game.
To some, Fiona O’Dell is clever and manipulative. To others, she is a dangerous sociopath. One thing is certain - she’s trouble wherever she goes. Now she has vanished from her job, but not before being seen leaving a motel room where one man is found dead, another on the edge of death. Is this grizzly crime scene a BDSM encounter gone wrong? Or is it related to a company data breach where all three are employed?
Private security
expert Lee Stone and NYPD Detective Belle Hughes are assigned to the case. In a
race to find Fiona, they track her across four states and shocked to find men
from her past are being murdered. With little information and even less
evidence, each new crime scene brings more questions than answers.
While secrets are
revealed, there is only one conclusion: Fiona controls the game, the players,
even the course of the investigation. The danger escalates, and the game must
be mastered, or all fall victim to it. As Lee and Belle struggle to put all the
pieces together, the two investigators find their relationship heats up as they
are drawn to each other. Looking for a murder mystery with a feisty female
detective that’s filled with twists and turns? Explore The Last Lie She Told
for a thrill ride that leaves you guessing until the end.
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When you develop characters
do you already know who they are before you begin writing or do you let them
develop as you go?
For each book my characters developed differently.
My first book THREE I had a very strong idea of who I wanted
my characters to be and how they would live their lives. The way I developed my
characters in my first book was to fill out a five-page character analysis on
each character including a Myers Brigg analysis. Once I had the shape of the
characters personality I then trolled the internet for pictures of what each
would look like. Once I put a picture to
the person, then I chose a name based on what I wanted that person to portray.
The next step was to find places that represented the setting of the book and
again that came from pictures on the internet mostly real estate listings. When
all of that was completed I story boarded everything and as I completed each chapter,
I would place the poster board on the easel as inspiration.
I didn’t formulate my characters in my second book TWO until
I wrote it and I wrote that book by the seat of my pants. The setting came easy
because I have traveled to Paris many times and unlike a regular tourist I
explored every corner of the city. The characters easily took form in my mind and
I didn’t need a story board visualization. What challenged me in this book with
my antagonist Adrien was the fact he was a doctor yet used his skills for evil.
The challenge was making him human but with large flaws that were self-imposed.
In this book I did not do any character analysis ahead of time nor any story
boarding possibly because I felt each character on a visceral level in my mind
when I started.
ONE was the last book in the series and as I was already
acquainted with all the characters from the first and second book there really was
no need for further character analysis for the heavy hitters in the book. The
new characters I introduced sprung from my imagination as I developed the
manuscript and refined them on paper. This book was the most difficult to write
and without an outline I wrote the book three time in full trashing the first
two manuscripts until I accepted the third. So by the time I had finished the
final version I was well acquainted with the characters.
The present book The Last Lie She Told was born from a lunch
conversation at a Japanese restaurant with a friend from a political science
class. Our lunch conversation revolved around our previous jobs and low and
behold a fascinating story emerged about a narcissistic student who had a
volatile past that negatively impacted every person she met. When my friend
told me there was no end to the story because she disappeared without a trace I
decided to give my own an ending to the story. This book
unlike my last two I used a 7 point plot wheel to develop the essential scenes
and while doing that also sketched out my characters based on the theme of the
book second chances and redemption.
As I begin the next book, I will once again fall back onto
an outline and character analysis to help me craft a complex story with
complicate characters.
Author
Bio – K. J. McGillick was born in New York and once
she started to walk she never stopped running. But that's what New Yorker's do.
Right?
As she evolved so did her career choices. After completing her graduate degree in nursing she spent many years in the university setting sharing the dreams of the enthusiastic nursing students she taught. After twenty rewarding years in the medical field she attended law school and has spent the last twenty-four years as an attorney helping people navigate the turbulent waters of the legal system. Not an easy feat. And now? Now she is sharing the characters she loves with readers hoping they are intrigued by her twisting and turning plots and entertained by her writing.
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