Fertile ground, because let’s face it, good people make for really dull stories. And that’s a fun pit to play in for a writer. After all, it’s in the situations when we’re acting at our most shameful – cheating on a partner, sleeping with someone else’s partner, or secretly fighting to keep a spouse, that our versions of the truth are the most tenuous. An affair combined with a marriage built on secrets – which there must be in a thriller – is perfect for creating unreliable narrators. My novel Behind Her Eyes is, on the surface, the story of the three people in a love affair. I don’t mind a narrator who’s self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see. No one likes being outright lied to, even in fiction. The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the truth.

Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective. The way I see it, we’re all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories.

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