Tales of the unexpected: Wolverhampton author's prepares to publish his new book
Ideas for story plots and characters will often pop into thriller writer Mark Edwards’ head out of nowhere
And that’s exactly what happened with one of the key scenes in his new book, No Place To Run.
“I just had a vision of a woman being chased through a forest and someone witnessing it from a train,” says the best-selling author from Wolverhampton. “I don’t know where it came from. This happens a lot, things just pop into my head. It was such an intriguing scene. I didn’t know who she was or what the story would be, but I thought it was a good opening for a book.”
No Place to Run, which is published on June 21, is the third in a row of Mark’s novels to be set in America and parts of the story were inspired by a rail-and-road trip he took to California in 2019.
“It’s about a British man, named Aidan Faith, who lives in Seattle and works in the tech industry. His 15-year-old sister, Scarlett, goes to stay with him and a few days into the trip, she goes missing.
“Aidan wakes up one morning and she’s not there. He can’t find her and she’s not answering her phone. There’s a huge man-hunt but she’s never found. Two years later an elderly woman is travelling by train from Los Angeles to Seattle.
