Lynne Reeves
Author Interview - Lynne Reeves
Author of The Dangers of an Ordinary Night
This twisty and affecting thriller combines a meticulously constructed crime story with a devastating domestic drama about the blind spots in our most precious relationships. Readers will relate to these seemingly ordinary characters who harbor explosive secrets. They’ll be called to examine the deepest mystery of family life—why we often hide our private struggles from the people we love most.
Author I draw inspiration from: Tana French and Anne Tyler
Favorite place to read a book: By the ocean
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: The second Mrs. Maxim deWinter | Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: the year I turned forty
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: I love them all! But it I had to pick, I'd have to say hardback.
The last book I read: LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Pen & paper or computer: Pen & paper for plotting and character sketches | computer for writing
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: I am a school and family counselor, but if I could be anything I'd love to be a singer.
Place I’d most like to travel: My favorite place to travel is Europe, especially France, and I'm presently planning trips to Ireland and Italy.
My signature drink: Rosé
Favorite artist: the impressionists--Monet, Manet, Morisot
Number one on my bucket list: I'd love for one of my novels to be made into a movie
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Author Bio: Lynne Reeves Griffin is an internationally recognized family counselor, public speaker, teacher and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her work has appeared in Parents, Psychology Today, Solstice Literary Magazine, Chautauqua Journal, Craft Literary, Fiction Writers Review, Brain, Child and more.
Writing as Lynne Griffin, she is the author of the family-focused novels, Life Without Summer (St. Martin’s Press), Sea Escape (Simon & Schuster), and Girl Sent Away (SixOneSeven Books).
She writes novels of domestic suspense as Lynne Reeves, with The Dangers of an Ordinary Night to be published by Crooked Lane Books in November 2021.