Goodreads asked Anna Willett:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Anna Willett When I was fourteen, a classmate of mine got off the bus on a Saturday afternoon and waved goodbye to her best friend - another classmate - and vanished. The girl’s disappearance changed the way I viewed life and remained a mystery for almost ten years. Her body was discover only a few hundred metres from that bus stop, buried under concrete at the back of a shop. A place I’d passed hundreds of times, alone and with friends.

Even though the mystery has been solved, it’s still a haunting event. On occasion, I still pass that shop. I think of that girl, still fourteen in my memory and wonder, why her? Why that day? Was she the first?

I write thrillers, trying to assemble the questions and answers into something that’s entertaining and as real as I dare make them.

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