Author Sarah Easter Collins talks with Kelley Vick about her debut literary thriller, Things Don’t Break on Their Own, how she plays with the expectations of clued-up thriller readers, the ways in which her work as a painter informs her writing, her inspiring road to publication, and much more.

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