This week I will fly to Switzerland for some reading events. A book club has invited me, a community centre, a school, an night class and I will do a reading in downtown Zurich.
Switzerland is my first home country: I was born and raised there. Eighteen years ago, I emigrated to Canada. My first book "The Zurich Conspiracy" is set in Switzerland, but all my other mystery novels take place in Canada.
I love both countries with all my heart. I still have family and lots of friends in Switzerland. When I visit the country, I am stunned how beautiful it is. I really have the best of both worlds.
I like to write about locations that I know personally. I did the same trip to the Arctic as tourist guide Valerie Blaine with her tour group in my latest book "The Stranger on the Ice". And I spend a lot of time on the rugged island of Newfoundland where "Stormy Cove" is set. Landscapes play an important role in my novels. It is the locations that inspire my books and the plot. I like to travel and I like adventures and when I read the reviews, I can see that a lot of readers love them, too. Even when they cannot travel to these remote, isolated places, they can do it in their imagination. Our minds are really neat in that way. Let`s all have a great trip, my dear readers!