Hank Phillippi Ryan
Author Interview - Hank Phillippi Ryan
Author of Her Perfect Life and One Wrong Word
About One Wrong Word by Hank Phillippi Ryan:
A heart-racing new psychological thriller from USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning author, Hank Phillippi Ryan.
One wrong word can ruin your life. And no one knows that better than savvy crisis management expert Arden Ward. Problem is, she's now forced to handle a shocking crisis of her own. Unfairly accused of having an affair with a powerful client, Arden’s life and dreams are about to crash and burn. Then, Arden is given an ultimatum. She has just two weeks to save her career and her reputation.
Is Cordelia Bannister the answer to her prayers?
Cordelia needs Arden’s help for her husband Ned, a Boston real estate mogul. Though he was recently acquitted in a fatal drunk driving accident, his reputation is ruined, and the fallout is devastating not only to the Bannisters' lives, but the lives of their two adorable children.
Arden devotes her skill and determination –and maybe her final days on the job--to helping this shattered family, but soon, revelations begin to emerge about what really happened the night of the accident. And then—another car crash throws Ned back into the spotlight.
This case is Arden’s final chance to protect her own future and clear her name. But the more she tries to untangle the truth, the more she’s haunted by one disturbing question—what if she’s also protecting a killer?
Gossip. Lies. Rumors. Words like that can hurt you. And Arden knows the reality. Sometimes one wrong word can kill.
About Her Perfect Life by Hank Phillippi Ryan:
Everyone knows Lily Atwood—and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all—fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret. Her own.
Lily has an anonymous source who feeds her story tips—but suddenly, the source begins telling Lily inside information about her own life. How does he—or she—know the truth?
Lily understands that no one reveals a secret unless they have a reason. Now she’s terrified someone is determined to destroy her world—and with it, everyone and everything she holds dear. How can you keep a secret when you are always in the spotlight? And what happens when the spotlight becomes the most dangerous place of all?
Author Interview - Hank Phillippi Ryan
Author I draw inspiration from:
Edith Wharton. Tom Wolfe. Stephen King. Sue Grafton.
Author Interview - Hank Phillippi Ryan | Author I Draw Inspiration From
Favorite place to read a book:
Floating on a raft in the swimming pool, looking up through the sugar maples into the blue sky above, with no responsibilities and my own book completed and with glass of real lemonade.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with:
Anthony Horowitz the character in Anthony Horowitz's A Line to Murder. (Or Finlay Donovan.)
Author Interview - Hank Phillippi Ryan | Book Character I’d Like to be Stuck in an Elevator With
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author:
Either when I read Murder on the Orient Express at age 12 or so, or, forty years later, when I had a really good idea for a book. (That turned out to be Prime Time, which won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel.)
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook:
ANY of them. ALL of them. It depends. Hardback or PB sitting or floating, Ebook on the treadmill, audio in the car.
The last book I read:
Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian SO creepy! And a wonderful debut.
Author Interview - Hank Phillippi Ryan | The Last Book I Read
Pen & paper or computer:
Computer! Ah, if I take notes, though, I use a Blackwing pencil. I LOVE those.
Book character I think I’d be best friends with:
Honestly, my own Charlotte McNally. The people in the books I read now are so....damaged. But maybe Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone? Or Meg Murry in Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Portia, in The Merchant of Venice. Oh! Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday. OH--Katherine Hepburn in Desk Set. But that's a movie.
Author Interview - Hank Phillippi Ryan | Book Character I’d be Best Friends With
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a:
OOh. A lawyer. Or a florist. A flower-arranging lawyer.
Favorite decade in fashion history:
The 1950's I guess? Tiny waists, big skirts, very sleek belted suits with mid-calf tight skirts. But anything that Katharine Hepburn, or Grace Kelly, or Audrey Hepburn wore, in any decade.
Place I’d most like to travel:
I keep thinking about trying more exotic places, but then I always just want to go back to Paris.
My signature drink:
Latte with skim milk. Red wine. Hmm. Not very exciting choices. But delicious.
Favorite artist:
Franz Marc. I love the Fauves. Or--Kandinsky. SO fascinating! (Or did you mean music?)
Number one on my bucket list:
Um, can I not do bucket list? It seems kind of depressing. :-)
Anything else you'd like to add:
I love these questions! On the surface, they are so easy--but underneath, they're really thought-provoking. Maybe because I'm a reporter and a writer, I want everything to be correct and perfect--like Lily does in HER PERFECT LIFE--and some of your wonderful questions I'd never been asked before! (When do I get to ask YOU?)
About Hank Phillippi Ryan:
HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN is the USA Today bestselling author of 13 psychological thrillers, winning the genre's most prestigious awards: five Agathas, four Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, winning 37 EMMYs. Book reviewers call her “a master of suspense” and “superb and gifted storyteller.” THE FIRST TO LIE garnered a Publishers Weekly starred review and is nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Novel and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Watch for HER PERFECT LIFE on September 14--it received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, which called it "A superlative thriller."
