Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is an American author of fiction. She is the author of several thrillers including The Killing Hour and The Next Accident. She also wrote romance novels using the pseudonym Alicia Scott. Raised in Hillsboro, Oregon, she graduated from the city's Glencoe High School. Her novel Gone is set in a fictionalized version of Tillamook, Oregon. As of 2007, Gardner lives in New Hampshire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
character home the-end-of-the-day
I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.
strong clever believe
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.
age borders internet
I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.
writing suspense-novels people
All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.
book chocolate needs
When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.
war cop novel
Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.
parent secret vices
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.
hurt people stranger
It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.
parenting fighting thinking
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.
crazy psych done
When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.
thinking together needs
We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.
thinking differences doctors
You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon.
thinking suspense appeals
I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.