Notes from the margin
Romance can be MURDER
Researching online romance puts Lorraine Mace, as ever, in murderous mood
Like most writers I spend a fair amount of time on research. Sometimes this is gruesome stuff, such as finding new ways to kill, or looking into the horrors of people trafficking. Fortunately, not all my research is dark and depressing.
This month I thought I’d share with you the fun I’ve had delving into online dating. In a future book I intend to have a lowlife villain who preys on vulnerable older women on a variety of dating sites. As I’d never dipped so much as a toenail, far less an entire toe, into such sharkinfested waters, I thought I’d better sign up to a few sites and find out the mechanics of the system.