Why is plot so complex?

A plot is so much more than a trail of significant events.  In Islands of Deception, I had the personal accounts of my two main characters. Hans and Esther Bernsteen both led eventful lives, but for some fifty years they accused each other of lying. Ironically, they were both telling the truth, and their two stories were actually one tale of conflicts and secrecy.  How do we unravel this twisted trail and make it comprehensible?

Accurate events and times don’t do justice to characters who are experiencing desperate and perilous situations.  Imagination was the next part of the process.  It led me to an assemblage of  exotic places and dynamic people, material for vivid scenes.

There were days that I felt very much like the girl tied down to these railroad tracks, hearing the whistle of an oncoming locomotive. The real tension was not in the fact that there was a train.  Where was it going?

“The writing is stellar and the plot so well paced it becomes impossible to stop reading. Islands of Deception features great literary elements and I particularly like Constance Hood’s masterful use of suspense, developed around the switch in the plots.”

from READER’S CHOICE review