Still Waters - 1
People often ask where authors get their ideas from. It's often hard to say, but the idea for Still Waters came at quite a precise moment. My hairdresser was colouring my hair, to the accompaniment of local radio, which brought a news update. A body had been found in a local seaside resort. The man, who lived in a flat on the sea front, had chosen to hop off not his own balcony but a neighbouring hotel's. I was hooked. And then, my hairdresser, an ex-policeman, reminisced about his days in the Force. He wasn't just any copper; he was part of an underwater search and rescue team. One of his cases made my (newly blonde) hair stand on end. Well, how would you like to reach for the hand of a young woman trapped in a reservoir only to have it come off in your hand?
So that was the moment that Still Waters was conceived - the third in the Fran Harman series.
