An Interview of Kate White, author of Eyes on You
When did you decide that you’d like to write mysteries? I knew I wanted to write mysteries from the moment I read my first Nancy Drew book. I was enthralled by the genre. I guess I was about 11. What inspired this particular mystery? Because I was the in the magazine business for many years (including editor in chief of Cosmopolitan for 14 years), most of my books take place in New York and involve the magazine world. But I'd never written a book about someone who was super successful in her career and I wanted to do that. There are definite perils to being a powerful woman. Sometimes it can be murderous--in a figurative sense. So I wanted to write a book about a successful woman who found herself in a truly terrifying situation, one that was worse than a bad case of office politics. What do you like best about writing mysteries? I love the plotting part. My goal is always to write whodunits that make readers stay up late and feel satisfied at the end but...