Tracy Sierra chats to Paul Burke about her new Psychological thriller Warning Signs, true crime, tragedy through a lens, Nightwatching, place, James Joyce, danger least expected.

Warning Signs: There’s something out there in the darkness.
By morning, bones lie in the snow, picked clean.
Zach knows the moods of the mountains – his mother taught him before she was gone. His father and the other men on the ski weekend think they know better though.
Drinking and boasting, they laugh in the face of the icy conditions.
But Zach understands what danger looks like. Can he survive the wilderness, and all the monsters within it?

Tracy Sierra was born and raised in the Colorado mountains. She is an attorney who currently lives in New England in an antique colonial-era home complete with its own secret room. When not writing, she spends time with her husband and two children. Nightwatching is her debut novel.

Recommended: In a Lonely Place Dorothy B Hughes, The Dead James Joyce, Night of the Hunter (Film), 

Dead Weight Hildur Knútsdóttir trans. Mary Robinette Kowal (pub. August 2026).

Paul Burke is the editor of CTFM and Aspects of Crime. 

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