Did he scream in anguish, knowing after recollecting who Louisa is, she isn't alive anymore? Or knowing she isn't alive for him to kill her again with his own hands? As, you know, she WAS the reason he lost all his memories and has had this terrible headache all these years. In present, soon it's new years. Louisa had gone to her sister's place while Paul was snooping around trying to find information on Adam. There's news! Paul comes to know Adam didn't die after all. He was saved and lost his 2 years memory. Didn't remember any people except for his mother. And there's another news, Adam was his band name, his actual name was Alan Murray, and Louisa wasn't aware of even that. So much for being a girlfriend? Little did she know she's about to burn not just that but the entire place down. Taking hers and Paul's life along with it. Is any part of this novel autobiographical, or is it wholly imagined? Would you say that you were—or are—more like Karen or Biba? These people, for various reasons, because of some trauma in childhood or whatever...they are the most important person in their own world. So, in an extreme situation you could see how that would affect and inform their decisions. So, that was where I started from, and obviously I've had the benefit of reading the whole script, so I could decide what would have happened when she was younger to have such an extreme effect on how she behaves in adult life."

I don't believe in the fifteen year gap where Adam goes missing. He's not hiding from anyone other than his mother (and subsequently his childhood) at this point. He's obviously listed as a missing person under Alan, and we find out he's got a family now...and he's still called Alan. Did he change his last name too, and is that why techno-savvy Paul or Missing Persons couldn't just find him on Facebook or whatever? He didn't remember anything from his sixteenth birthday, so he obviously doesn't remember Louisa either. As he only remembers her name at the end when he reads her memorial, I guess we can assume that the band either didn't meat up with him after (not very plausible, if they knew his real name and read the newspaper) or they never told him about Louisa. So why hide, why run away? What's his motivation? Did he really have any? Crucially, I also disliked the ending. Where I had related to the younger Karen so much, I found the older version's final actions impossible to sympathise with.

Publication Order of Tainted Moonlight Books

Biba is a bohemian, an aspiring actress looking for a German coach. Karen speaks the language, and they embark on a friendship filled with parties, drugs, artistic people, and what Karen feels is freedom from her normal, dull life. Biba’s brother, Rex, tries to look out for them, but Biba is a force of nature.

Filming was hard work – I have a new respect for TV presenters - but great fun. Even in normal times, I find that I really need to offset the isolation of writing with more sociable work, or I fall down the rabbit hole of my own mind, which if you’ve read my books you’ll know can be a pretty dark place. It was a breath of fresh air to be around colleagues again rather than imaginary friends. Even if we were all in different rooms, communicating by walkie-talkie. Recently, Kelly has again joined journalism. She spends her daytime performing her duties as a journalist and teaching creative writing in college. It is only in the evening and in the spare time that Kelly is able to put her imaginary stories on paper. She is hopeful of continuing to work this way for a few more years before leaving everything else and settling down as a full-time author. As of today, Kelly resides in north London with her loving husband and their beautiful daughters. She considers her family as her biggest strength. The presence of her daughters and husband in her life gives her the motivation to keep going on. Oh yes, there were so many... [they] were incredible. In Biba's room she hangs dresses on the wall like paintings. She adores the fabrics and the colours and the jewels. She surrounds herself with them all over the floor and they're like bedding - she has them across her bed .

The Poison Tree is a bit of a change in direction for you - why did you decide to go from big Hollywood films to a relatively small British TV drama?

And we won't know any of it, what Louisa is hiding or how/why did the murder happen to which Paul was a witness, until half of the book. And the half was all about Paul and Louisa meeting and getting to know each other. And also having a relationship! We all knew Daniel from the snippet of this plot anyway. What surprised me was that Daniel.. seemed like a nice guy. When he saved Paul for the first time, he shouted at those guys asking the very same questions which I wanted to ask, "Why do you go around bullying innocent people?!" Biba and Rex live in a run-down old house that used to belong to their parents. Their mother committed suicide, and their father is a movie executive who wants nothing to do with them. As the days go by, they ask Karen to move in, and they spend the summer drinking and having fun. Rex and Karen begin a relationship, and Biba begins a relationship with a young man named Guy, whom no one likes.Anyway. When Paul informs her with all this information, hoping that Louisa will be super happy knowing she isn't a murderer after all. Knowing she won't have to hide anymore... there are many wonderfully tiny details that please the reader, and it is a fairly satisfying, if a little too convenient, mystery/suspense novel.it is always nice to have two characters whose every wrong turn is so darn obvious, and you can only shake your head and say, "oh no - don't do that!!!" if only it were so obvious in real life... Despite the slow build-up, Kelly makes it very clear that nothing good can come from these dynamics. And whilst I did predict a major part of the “twist” (I read A LOT of these mysteries), I was still invested to watch the slow descend into disaster as both Karen and Rex act as if remote-controlled by Biba’s destructive hand. I love a good character study, and the way poor Karen gets drawn into the Capel siblings’ world was well executed. I related to some of Karen’s fascination with the Capel’s lives – “straight A student falls for more exciting personalities” is a theme that really does play out in real life. A wonderful premise for a novel that is part character study and part domestic thriller and will undoubtedly stun some readers with its twist. But who died, and why? In a prologue set in the dead of night, why does Karen flee from their home? Who's been watching them? And what has Karen been hiding for all these years? I loved the beautifully descriptive and poetic style of the narrative and the way it begins in the present and slowly reveals everything that has led up to this moment culminating with its twist at the end (although I must admit, I did see this coming a couple of chapters or so beforehand).