Clare Mackintosh was a police officer before turning to writing about crime and becoming a bestselling writer. She lives with her husband and their three children and, like a lot of working parents, her children’s lives dictate the structure of her working week.
‘I tend to get to my desk around ten, after I’ve done the school run and walked the dogs, and I’ll stay there most of the day, taking a short break around three-thirty, when one of the teenagers comes home, then go back to work
