Lyndee Walker’s journalist investigator Nichelle Clarke juggles stud muffin boyfriends while she takes on “Mafia hotties, corrupt politicians, old flames and murder.br /

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Hi there. I’m your host jenny Wheeler and LynDee talks her new crime thriller  Hidden Victims as well as a new Texas Ranger law and order series on The Joys of Binge Reading.br /

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We’ve got three E book copies of Hidden Victims to give away to three lucky readers. Enter the draw on Joys of Binge Reading.com or on our Binge Reading Facebook Page.br /

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Six things you’ll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode:br /

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LynDee's award winning journalism beginnings'Stay at home' Mum discovers writing fictionHow her protagonist Nichelle was createdThe attraction of the Texas RangersA sharp new author to watchThe 'secret' to writing success (it's not glamorous!)br /

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Where to find LynDee Walker: br /

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Website: https://lyndeewalker.com/connect/br /

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lyndeewalkerbooks/https://www.facebook.com/lyndeewalkerbooks/br /

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BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/lyndee-walkerbr /

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What follows is a near as transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to important mentions.br /

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But now, here’s LynDee.  Hello there LynDee and welcome to the show, it’s great to have you with us.br /

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Jenny Wheeler: Hello there, LynDee and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us.br /

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LynDee Walker thriller authorbr /

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LynDee Walker: Hi Jenny. Thank you so much for inviting me.br /

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Jenny Wheeler: I always like to start with this question. It might be a little predictable, but readers always like to know the answer to it. How did you get started on your writing? Was there a Once Upon a Time moment when you had that 'light bulb' experience – I have to do this, or was it something a lot more gradual and integrated?br /

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LynDee Walker: Actually I did have a light bulb moment. It's a funny story. My son, my second child was probably a year old and I was loading my dishwasher and all of a sudden there was this reporter in my head. She was locked in a car trunk down in Shockoe Bottom because she'd got herself into trouble chasing a story, and she couldn't figure out how she was going to get out of it. br /

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I looked at the silverware caddy in the dishwasher and said, I don't know anything about writing fiction, but I didn't have anything else to do while the baby was taking his naps and she wouldn't go away, so I got my computer and I started writing the story and that was eleven years ago this summer.br /

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I never had any idea at that time where all of this was going to take me or how much fun I was going to have with Nichelle, but that is where she came from.  That scene where she's locked in the car trunk in Shockoe Bottom made it through all of the edits and is still smack in the middle of the first book.br /

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Introducing LynDee Walkerbr /

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Jenny Wheeler: How amazing. For those who don't know, your heroine being a journalist wasn't that surprising, because you yourself were a journalist at that time, were you not?br /

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LynDee Walker: I had been. I was a newspaper reporter before I was a mom. When I found out I was pregnant with my oldest daughter, I decided that maybe the 80-hour weeks and unpredictable hours of covering police and the courthouse was not a thing I wanted to keep doing because I was never going to get to see my baby.br /

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Front Page Fatality LynDee Walker #1br /

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