Danielle Trussoni is the New York Times and Internationally bestselling author of seven books. She has been the chair jurist of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and writes the monthly Dark Matters book column for the New York Times Book Review. Her fiction has been translated into over thirty languages. Her forthcoming novel The Puzzle Master has recently won the Selection Prix Bete Noir des Libraries in France. She currently lives in San Miguel de Allende Mexico with her family.
In this interview, Danielle and I discuss The Puzzle Master, how she came up with the ideas for this one, working with a puzzle constructor for this book, her research, Sudden Acquired Savant Syndrome, how she writes her first drafts …