J.A. Jance on The Taken Ones and 40 Years of J.P. Beaumont (Ep. 246)

J.A. Jance returns to Meet the Thriller Author to discuss The Taken Ones, her 27th J.P. Beaumont mystery. When a young woman vanishes after flying from Anchorage to Seattle for her dream internship, Beaumont joins the search from a thousand miles away.

Jance tells Alan Petersen how a train ride gave her the opening lines of her first Beaumont novel, why she still writes without an outline, and how a character named Twinkle Winkleman refused to stay on the sidelines. She also shares how she keeps track of characters across four series, what Bob Ross taught her about balancing light and dark in crime fiction, and how she makes time for her weekly blog.

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