Authors Interviewing Characters: Cara Reinard

January 25, 2022 | By Women Writers Women Books | Reply More

Cara Cara Reinard is an author of women’s fiction and domestic suspense. She interviewed her character Holly Boswell from INTO THE SOUND for us!

About INTO THE SOUND

A terrified voice on the phone. The line goes dead. The mystery begins.

During a superstorm, Holly Boswell receives a panicked call from her sister, Vivian: Come get me…There’s somebody coming. But when Holly arrives at a Long Island marina, there’s only her sister’s abandoned car. Vivian is gone.

It’s all eerily familiar. Holly and Vivian used to play hide-and-seek as children. It was a reprieve from the mental abuses of their parents, psychology professors who raised the siblings as if it were research. Decades later, Holly is reminded of their childhood games.

In her relentless search for the answers, Holly is reading between the lines in Vivian’s journals. She’s untangling clues in their mother’s diary and discovering secrets from her sister’s private world that are casting a dangerous shadow. Maybe Vivian has reasons for wanting to disappear from her well-to-do life. Or is it something more sinister? As Holly follows Vivian’s trail, she can’t shake the feeling that someone might be following her.

Cara Reinard interviewing Holly Boswell…

Cara: Holly, thank you so much for agreeing to the interview for Women Writers.

Holly: Sure, but as a former journalist, I’m only answering the questions I see fit.

Cara: You don’t sound too happy. Why did you agree to the interview if you didn’t want to answer all of the questions.

Holly: Because the cops in my town won’t pay attention to the obvious sign that my sister wasn’t lost in that storm. Something or somebody else took her. I thought if I could get some other form of press to talk about her, others would pay attention.

Cara: I’m sorry you feel that way. I saw the storm rip up the New York shoreline on the news. Do the cops think your sister lost her life in the storm? What proof do they have? And what proof do you have that she didn’t?

Holly: They found her car flooded out on the docks at Bay Shore marina. But they didn’t find her. I discovered her broken bracelet on the ground next to the car. I think there was a struggle.

Cara: Are you saying you think someone kidnapped her?

Holly: Yes. My sister, Vivian, called me and said that someone was coming. Then, the phone went dead.

Cara: I just got chills. What did the cops say when you told them that?

Holly: Nothing, really. I think it has more to do with what my brother-in-law said when they asked him though. Not that I would know from speaking to him. He won’t return my calls.

Cara: What did the detectives tell you he said?

Holly: That my sister, Vivian, was depressed. That there was no reason for her car to be at that location, so she must have had bad intentions…to hurt herself.

Cara: Was your sister depressed?

Holly: That’s the strange part. In the past, she’s had issues with depression, but lately, she’s had an extra pep in her step. She’s been dressing nicer and in a good mood. It doesn’t make sense that she would do this now.

Cara: Do you think her husband had something to do with her disappearance? They always look at the husband first. Are they looking at hers?

Holly: He’s involved. I’m sure of it. It’s why he won’t talk to me. He’s a defense attorney and knows whose pockets to stuff to make all his problems go away. He’s also on the payroll of the biggest gangster in the city. He knows the right people to make his wife go away.

Cara: Yikes. What clues do you have to prove your side?

Holly: I found secret chats between my sister and a friend claiming she didn’t trust her husband or his clients. I haven’t shared it with the police yet because she’s flirting in her chats and I don’t want the detectives to get the wrong idea.

Cara: Was your sister having an affair?

Holly: I think so. The police aren’t taking me serious as it is so I haven’t shared this. I think it will hamper their motivation to find her even more. I have to pursue this investigation on my own and find out what happened to my sister.

Cara: Was there anything else besides the chats that led you to believe something happened to Vivian?

Holly: Yes. The location she went missing was an important spot from our childhood. We didn’t grow up with normal parents. They were professors who performed their own experiments, and one was from that very location. Vivian called Me when she was in trouble. It was as if she left behind a mystery only I could solve.

Cara: I see. Well, let us know if we can be of any help.

Holly: I will. Thank you for listening to my pleas for help. If anyone knows anything, call the magazine, please!

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Cara Reinard is an author of domestic suspense and women’s fiction. She resides in the Pittsburgh area with her husband, two children and Bernese mountain dog. Cara is pursuing her online MFA at Lindenwood University.