Goodreads asked Catrin Collier:

How do you get inspired to write?

Catrin Collier Most of my Katherine John crime books have come from a single
image. The idea for Without Trace came when we driving back from France along a motorway in the early hours of the morning and I imagined being flagged down by a clown who climbed into car. But when the car drove away there was only figure inside it. By Any Name was the result of an appeal on an American crime show for anyone who could identify a man of obvious military background suffering from amnesia who had been found severely dehydrated and close to death in the Arizona desert. I didn't know anything about Arizona so I moved the plot to the Brecon Beacons. The Hearts of Gold series of books are rooted in my Welsh grandmother's life (she worked as a nurse in Pontypridd workhouse - she died when I was 3, but my father adored her and often spoke of her. One Last Summer owes a great deal to the diaries my Prussian born grandmother and mother kept during the wars. There is more but I have penned over 55 books,

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