Her instinct for observation and investigation inform former police officer Clare Mackintosh’s bestselling psychological thrillers, she tells Tina Jackson
Psychological thriller author Clare Mackintosh bears out the creative writing student’s maxim that you should write what you know. Clare is the author of grip-lit blockbuster I Let You Go and now its compelling follow-up I See You. Until recently, she was a regular WM columnist whose Excuse Me Officer column drew, like her fiction, on the knowledge gleaned during her former career as a police inspector. Clare’s thrillers offer a standout sense of authenticity that has reaped dividends: I Let You Go has sold more than half a million copies, been translated into almost thirty languages, been a Sunday Times bestseller, and was the fastest-selling title by a new crime writer in 2015.