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By Deborah O’Connor Published by Zaffre   Synopsis: One in 100 of us is a 'potentially dangerous person' - someone likely to commit a violent crime. We all know them: these charmers, liars and manipulators. The ones who send prickles up the back of our neck. These people hide in plain sight, they can be teachers, doctors, holding positions of trust, of power.  Jessamine Gooch makes a living tracking the 1 in 100. Each week she broadcasts a radio show that examines brutal offences, asking if more could have been done to identify and prevent their perpetrators. But when she agrees to investigate a missing person case involving a young mother, she is drawn into a web of danger that will ultimately lead to the upper echelons of power, and threaten the sfety of her own family. How did this book end up in my hands? I read it via The Pigeonhole . Was it a page-turner? OMG, at the end of each instalment every day, I kept trying to turn the page. I just couldn’t understa...

Hi Deborah! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of The Dangerous Kind ! Can you please briefly tell us what it is about? A: It’s a thriller about a BBC journalist called Jessamine Gooch who hosts a true crime radio show called ‘Potentially Dangerous People’. When someone asks if she will help them investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Jessamine soon finds herself embroiled in a series of events that take her into the very heart of the British establishment. Did you have the plot entirely figured out when you started writing the book or did it take an unexpected turn as the characters grew on the page? A: I didn’t have my plot figured out at all. I had my main characters and I knew I wanted to write a story that explored recent real live events, most notably the Rotheram scandal (in which it came to light that young girls were being groomed and raped by gangs of men) and Operation Yewtree which revealed the crimes of a huge number of cel...