Emma White

One character gets one chapter, a fourth, but we're largely in the hands of three of them.

And

Part of the fun for me, and the big reason why I like writing psychological thrillers, is because I think people are fascinating.

Character is fascinating.

And I'm a pantser.

I'm not a plotter.

I write by trying to get into these characters' minds and figuring out what they would do.

I actually didn't know.

I knew there was going to be four of them.

I knew one of them was going to be murdered.

I didn't actually know who had killed her while I was writing it up to a certain point because I wanted to give them each motive.

I wanted to make it possible that anyone could have done it.

And so what I had fun with when writing this was each character had

I would just kind of play as her.

And so how would she react in this situation?

They're going to this event.

They're interpreting this event very differently.

What's this one focused on?

What's that one focused on?

And so I think that helped me develop what hopefully comes across as a unique voice for each character.