KARIN SLAUGHTER

WHEN I first started thinking about my detective Will Trent, my main goal was to make him different from the men in my previous Grant County series. I needed him to be physically different, so I gave him sandy blonde hair, but I was worried a lot of men with lighter coloured hair end up losing it.Then I had breakfast with Lee Child and realised Lee still had a full head of hair so I figuredWill would be safe.As far asWill’s personality goes, he is only self-confident about one thing: his job.Will is a very good detective because he understands why criminals do bad things. Part of this understanding comes from the fact he was a criminal himself in his early life. Fortunately, he managed to pull himself away from that, but he uses those lessons when he’s tracking down bad guys.A lot of readers findWill very sexy. And that is usually because I gave him a superpower.At his very core,WillTrent is a man who listens to, and respects, women.

●●Karin Slaughter’s new standalone thriller, FalseWitness, is out now via HarperCollins