Possibly my favourite season, autumn is the time when the next novel starts to take shape. Each summer I stop publicising my latest book to work on the plot of the new one, when I can do much of my ‘plotting’ outdoors. But when the days shorten, I really concentrate on getting my thoughts on paper – or rather, into the laptop. I am working on the second novel in the DI Miriam Abbott series, following the Regional Unsolved Crime Unit on another case that has beaten the local force. I can reveal that this time they are focussing on a farm near Bedale.