You don't know this about me, but I’m an Alfred Hitchcock
fan. Rope, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, and I could go on.
After all, he directed more than fifty feature films over six decades. There
might be a very good reason I’m not overly found of birds. His use of camera to
mirror a person’s gaze lent a sense of voyeurism to his films, Rear Window
being the most obvious example and one of my personal favorites. He was a master at crafting suspense with plots
ripe with violence, crime and murder.
“There’s two people having breakfast and there’s a bomb
under the table. If it explodes, that’s a surprise. But if it doesn’t …” Alfred
Hitchcock
Hitchcock calls this the ticking time bomb plot. There’s a
bomb underneath the table that the characters are unaware of but the audience
is and the audience also knows when the bomb is due to go off. Suspense is
created by the gap of what the audience knows and the characters do not. Anyone
watched Psycho lately? He was skilled at creating worst-case scenarios which he
call frightmares, nightmares that happen in our waking lives.
I love using Alfred Hitchcock as an inspiration when
writing. Creating those ‘frightmares’ for characters and sending their lives
into chaos. That’s what suspense means to me. The unthinkable. The ultimate ‘what
if’. I tried to bring some of that to my debut romantic suspense, Backlash.
It's also release day for Backlash! Yay! You can find Backlash at The Wild Rose Press and Amazon.
What he's sworn to
protect, she's willing to sacrifice to save those she loves...
When dedicated
teacher Lily Wheeler interrupts a vicious gang attack on one of her students,
she vows it won't happen again. But her rash interference puts her in the path of
a cold-blooded killer and the constable tracking him-a man she has little
reason to trust, but can never forget.
Constable Chase Porter returned to Aspen Lake to see justice
done, not renew old acquaintances. But when he rescues the woman he once loved from
a volatile situation, he realizes his feelings for Lily haven't lessened over
the years.
Now, the dangerous killer Chase has sworn to capture has
Lily in his sights. Can Chase and Lilly learn to trust each other again before
it's too late-or will old insecurities jeopardize their future?
Thanks for stopping by and checking out Backlash!
Karyn Good
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