It was important to me to have a protagonist who is flawed and vulnerable, not perfect, and in some ways the exact opposite of the kind of person you want to be solving the mystery. Liz started off as a large part of myself, but as the story got bigger and things progressed she took on a life of her own.
Liz wrestles with survivor’s guilt, but she refuses to accept victimhood.
And everything in the book spiraled out from there. The question in Jackal is, when a Black girl goes missing, who looks for her? So I tried to make an urban legend or my own folklore, so to speak, around that. And when I thought about some of the unanswerable questions that were floating around for me-figuring out, or thinking about the optics of who goes missing, who gets the media coverage, and all that-it isn’t really an answerable question. I often find that urban legends, more so than folklore or mythology, are about how a community tries to answer an unanswerable question. It started mostly from my love for urban legends.
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