Iris Johansen — American Author born on April 07, 1938,

Iris Johansen is an American author of crime fiction and romance novels... (wikipedia)

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.