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Jamie Freveletti is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author of seven novels and four short stories. In addition to her own novels, she also wrote The Janus Reprisal and The Geneva Strategy for Robert Ludlum’s Covert One series. Her works have won an International Thriller Writers Best First Novel award and a Barry award and have been published into four languages. Apart from writing, Jamie has also practiced law in Chicago and is an avid distance runner and a black belt in aikido.

Debbi Mack interviews thriller author Jamie Freveletti on the Crime Cafe podcast.Check out the show notes below. Or, if you're in a rush, click here to download a copy.Debbi: [00:00:12] Hi everyone. This is the Crime Cafe, your podcasting source of great crime, suspense, and thriller writing. Before I introduce my guest, I just want to mention that there are some great new perks and features for readers who support the Crime Cafe Patreon campaign. You can access the Patreon campaign from my website DebbiMack.com.Debbi: [00:00:41] Today, it's my great pleasure to have on the show an award winning and internationally bestselling author of thriller novels. Specifically, the Emma Caldridge Series, which is totally awesome. I've read one of them, and they're absolutely fantastic. She has also written novels in the Robert Ludlum Covert One Series and, as the author of both crime fiction and true crime, I'm thrilled to have on today Jamie Freveletti. Hey, Jamie. It is so good to see you.Jamie: [00:01:18] Good to see you again. Even if it's virtual.Debbi: [00:01:22] Even if it's virtual. Yeah. Virtual beats no contact or falling apart. Well, I've read the first book in your series, and Emma Caldridge is just the most awesome protagonist. So smart, so resourceful, so kickass. Tell us about her, how you developed that character, and how she has developed over the course of your series.Jamie: [00:01:53] So, she's a chemist right. She's kind of like a female MacGyver. She came about, because I had written a novel, a manuscript I should say, and nobody had picked it up. And it's called BLACK MONEY. So I wanted to write something else. I love thrillers. I was at a 24-hour race with my husband. He's an ultramarathon runner, and he runs 24 hours at a time. So I went to this race. I was a handler. I used to go to make sure he didn't die. So, it was in Colorado. We had a freak snowstorm in the middle of the night. It was 70 degrees when they started. It was minus whatever and snowing on them. So one man passed out on the trail and got hypothermia. So I was in charge of dragging him to the hospital when I did that, and I started thinking you know he didn't know where he was, he didn't know his name. And that gave me the idea for a lot of things, because I thought, "This is kind of frightening." You know you "what if" and that always starts every novel, right? What if this happened to me? What if I got hypothermia or I was somewhere where I didn't know where I was. He was from England. You know, he was in a strange location running this 100-mile race. He was obviously in fantastic shape. But something happened. So that's why I put her, in RUNNING FROM THE DEVIL, I have her down in the Colombian jungle. I was thinking what would it be like if your plane is down. You don't know the east from west. You don't know where you are. You know the jungle in Colombia is landmined at the time. Since then, there's been a peace agreement. Treaty. But that's how it started.Debbi: [00:03:41] That's really amazing. It's just ... the story is just riveting. I mean that first one that I read, the first in your series? Just a page-turner. Totally.Jamie: [00:03:52] Thank you. Yeah. RUNNING FROM THE DEVIL started my career and got the awards and got everything rolling. That was really ... That's really the book that I still look back on with great fondness.Debbi: [00:04:05] That's awesome. That's wonderful. You have degrees in law and a postgraduate degree in International Studies. I take it that you've drawn upon your legal practice experience in your writing to a certain extent?Jamie: [00:04:21] I do all the time. When I was a lawyer, I did a lot of food, drug, and medical device, both regulatory and litigation. White-collar defense. And since Emma's a chemist, she's kind of fashioned on a bunch of the expert witnesses from the pharmaceutical companies that I used to work with. I love the experts.

Debbi Mack interviews thriller author Jamie Freveletti on the Crime Cafe podcast. Check out the show notes below. Or, if you're in a rush, click here to download a copy. Debbi: [00:00:12] Hi everyone. This is the Crime Cafe, your podcasting source of great crime, suspense, and thriller writing. Before I introduce my guest, I just want to mention that there are some great new perks and features for readers who support the Crime Cafe Patreon campaign. You can access the Patreon campaign from my website <a href="http://DebbiMack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DebbiMack.com</a>. Debbi: [00:00:41] Today, it's my great pleasure to have on the show an award winning and internationally bestselling author of thriller novels. Specifically, the Emma Caldridge Series, which is totally awesome. I've read one of them, and they're absolutely fantastic. She has also written novels in the Robert Ludlum Covert One Series and, as the author of both crime fiction and true crime, I'm thrilled to have on today Jamie Freveletti. Hey, Jamie. It is so good to see you. Jamie: [00:01:18] Good to see you again. Even if it's virtual. Debbi: [00:01:22] Even if it's virtual. Yeah. Virtual beats no contact or falling apart. Well, I've read the first book in your series, and Emma Caldridge is just the most awesome protagonist. So smart, so resourceful, so kickass. Tell us about her, how you developed that character, and how she has developed over the course of your series. Jamie: [00:01:53] So, she's a chemist right. She's kind of like a female MacGyver. She came about, because I had written a novel, a manuscript I should say, and nobody had picked it up. And it's called BLACK MONEY. So I wanted to write something else. I love thrillers. I was at a 24-hour race with my husband. He's an ultramarathon runner, and he runs 24 hours at a time. So I went to this race. I was a handler. I used to go to make sure he didn't die. So, it was in Colorado. We had a freak snowstorm in the middle of the night. It was 70 degrees when they started. It was minus whatever and snowing on them. So one man passed out on the trail and got hypothermia. So I was in charge of dragging him to the hospital when I did that, and I started thinking you know he didn't know where he was, he didn't know his name. And that gave me the idea for a lot of things, because I thought, "This is kind of frightening." You know you "what if" and that always starts every novel, right? What if this happened to me? What if I got hypothermia or I was somewhere where I didn't know where I was. He was from England. You know, he was in a strange location running this 100-mile race. He was obviously in fantastic shape. But something happened. So that's why I put her, in RUNNING FROM THE DEVIL, I have her down in the Colombian jungle. I was thinking what would it be like if your plane is down. You don't know the east from west. You don't know where you are. You know the jungle in Colombia is landmined at the time. Since then, there's been a peace agreement. Treaty. But that's how it started. Debbi: [00:03:41] That's really amazing. It's just ... the story is just riveting. I mean that first one that I read, the first in your series? Just a page-turner. Totally. Jamie: [00:03:52] Thank you. Yeah. RUNNING FROM THE DEVIL started my career and got the awards and got everything rolling. That was really ... That's really the book that I still look back on with great fondness. Debbi: [00:04:05] That's awesome. That's wonderful. You have degrees in law and a postgraduate degree in International Studies. I take it that you've drawn upon your legal practice experience in your writing to a certain extent? Jamie: [00:04:21] I do all the time. When I was a lawyer, I did a lot of food, drug, and medical device, both regulatory and litigation. White-collar defense. And since Emma's a chemist, she's kind of fashioned on a bunch of the expert witnesses from the pharmaceutical companies that I used to work with. I love the experts.

Interview with Thriller Author Jamie Freveletti – S. 4, Ep. 22

Jamie Freveletti is a trial attorney, martial artist, and runner. She’s an avid runner and holds a black belt in aikido, a Japanese martial art. After law school she lived in Geneva, Switzerland while obtaining a diploma in International Studies. Back in Chicago, she represented clients in areas ranging from class actions for mass salmonella poisoning to securities fraud. Her debut thriller Running from the Devil was chosen as a “Notable Book” by the Independent Booksellers of America, awarded “Best First Novel” by the International Thriller Writers, awarded a Barry Award for “Best First Novel” by Deadly Pleasures Magazine, and nominated for a Macavity Award for” Best First Mystery” by the Mystery Readers International and “Favorite First Novel of 2009” by Crimespree Magazine. It has been translated into three languages and was an international bestseller.Her second novel Running Dark released in June, 2010, hit both the Chicagoland and South Florida bestseller lists and the third novel in her series, The Ninth Day released in September, 2011 and was chosen as one of the “Best Thrillers of 2011” by Suspense Magazine. The fourth in her series, Dead Asleep released on October 30, 2012. In January, 2011, she was tapped by the Estate of Robert Ludlum to write the next in the Covert One series. She wrote Robert Ludlum’s The Janus Reprisal and her latest in that series The Geneva Strategy followed. She is a contributor for the non-fiction anthology, Anatomy of Innocence, Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted edited by Laura Caldwell, of the Life After Innocence project, and Leslie Klinger author. This is a trademarked copyrighted podcast solely owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network LLC.

Jamie Freveletti is a trial attorney, martial artist, and runner. She’s an avid runner and holds a black belt in aikido, a Japanese martial art. After law school she lived in Geneva, Switzerland while obtaining a diploma in International Studies. Back in Chicago, she represented clients in areas ranging from class actions for mass salmonella poisoning to securities fraud. Her debut thriller Running from the Devil was chosen as a “Notable Book” by the Independent Booksellers of America, awarded “Best First Novel” by the International Thriller Writers, awarded a Barry Award for “Best First Novel” by Deadly Pleasures Magazine, and nominated for a Macavity Award for” Best First Mystery” by the Mystery Readers International and “Favorite First Novel of 2009” by Crimespree Magazine. It has been translated into three languages and was an international bestseller. Her second novel Running Dark released in June, 2010, hit both the Chicagoland and South Florida bestseller lists and the third novel in her series, The Ninth Day released in September, 2011 and was chosen as one of the “Best Thrillers of 2011” by Suspense Magazine. The fourth in her series, Dead Asleep released on October 30, 2012. In January, 2011, she was tapped by the Estate of Robert Ludlum to write the next in the Covert One series. She wrote Robert Ludlum’s The Janus Reprisal and her latest in that series The Geneva Strategy followed. She is a contributor for the non-fiction anthology, Anatomy of Innocence, Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted edited by Laura Caldwell, of the Life After Innocence project, and Leslie Klinger author.  This is a trademarked copyrighted podcast solely owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network LLC.

Thriller Author Jamie Freveletti on 2nd Sunday Crime 1/7/18 -- 6 PM CST