The last February prompt.

 The Romantic fiction prompt for today is what film or TV series is most like your books? 

My earlier books are inspired more by other authors  - American romantic suspense from authors like Nora Roberts, Jayne Ann Krentz and Karen Rose. 

My most recent books - the Riviera series - those owe a lot of all those glossy TV series from the 80s. If I have to pick one I’m choosing the American TV show Remington Steele, but it could equally have been any of those glossy detective shows of the 1980s – Moonlighting, Scarecrow and Mrs King, Hart to Hart. Remington Steele gets the vote solely on the strength of staring Pierce Brosnan – the classic tall, dark, handsome hero. They were glitzy, sophisticated, action driven, with a central couple with a teasing will they/won’t they relationship (although the couple in Hart to Hart were married) – the kind of escapist entertainment that I was aiming for in the Riviera series. Of course my hero and heroine do get together – that’s why it’s romantic suspense.

And the WIP? Well, I'm really not sure about that one. It's early days. I want to go back to a grittier style - I'm not sure that I'm doing that, but the body count is certainly rising. I want to explore the gothic and dark academia, but at the moment I seem to be channeling a vibe from Raiders of the Lost Arc and The Da Vinci Code. There is a distinct treasure hunt feel going on. Not at all sure where it is going, but it is going and I am enjoying it, so at the moment it's all good. The pushing treacle up hill bit doesn't usually set in until later.