![]() How much is autobiographical or wishful thinking? Your character Franco is a photographer and you’re a photographer by profession. When I read about the massive and tragic blackout in ’77, I instantly knew I wanted that to be a part of my story. The more I learned, the more I got hooked, igniting my passion for the English language, which I wasn’t allowed to take in high school due to my poor French grades, and learned almost entirely from dictionaries, books, movies (and the gutter, as some of my friends love to say). My fascination with all things 70s and the US grew sometime in my late teens, through music (Funk, Soul, R&B…Disco), TV, and movies (many of which made it across the pond (and dubbed into German, no less) years later). Over two hundred trips later, the city still exudes vibrancy, adventure, and danger for me, and I always felt that, for better or worse, anything can happen there. ![]() I’ve loved New York ever since my first trip there in ’90 (I was a flight attendant for Swissair for over twelve years). I should rephrase that: two mysteries in New York City because one mystery is contemporary while the other is set in the late 70s. ![]() You were born in Switzerland, a country known for alpine snow and skiing, and yet you live in the desert of California and wrote a mystery set in Manhattan. ![]()
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