Cook books editor who serves up bestsellers

The Accident

IT MADE perfect sense that Chris Pavone’s debut thriller, The Expats, became a critically acclaimed bestseller when it was published in 2011, and that it won a slew of awards. The American author had, after all, worked as an editor in the publishing industry for almost two decades. Thus he had a canny understanding of the commercial requirements of a genre novel, and an insider’s knowledge of the craft involved in writing a block-busting thriller.

At least, that’s the theory. Until you realise that Chris Pavone is actually a veteran editor of cook books and gardening tomes.