Real life debates around fact and fiction inspired Wood’s latest book.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cSometimes I do pull ideas from real life or get a hankering for a certain kind of story,\u201d Wood says. \u201cWith Ladykiller, it\u2019s told from two different points of view and plays with truth and perception. How do we decide what is true when two people see something two different ways?\u201d<\/p>\n
For this book, Wood presents two competing versions of a woman\u2019s mysterious disappearance in the Greek isles that leaves readers questioning each narrator\u2019s reliability. At the same time, it sticks to Wood\u2019s favorite genre: escapist thriller tinged with romance in an exotic location.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m always traveling and looking for my next place to set a book,\u201d says Wood, a former actress, screenwriter and producer who spent 24 years in California before moving to Buckhead three years ago. \u201cI always wanted to set something in the Greek islands that are such a wonderful place to go in summer. I honeymooned there in 2012, but even if you haven\u2019t been there, you can conjure an image of what it\u2019s like. And with oppressive heat and Aperol spritzers flowing, you know bad decisions are coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among Wood\u2019s favorite destinations is Atlanta, the city she and husband Alex Petrovitch specifically picked to be their home base. During the pandemic, Petrovitch did his TV editing job from their LA home, and Wood was on leave from a production company to stay with the couple\u2019s two young daughters. \u201cIt was always a dream of mine to write a book, so I used that time to do it,\u201d she says. \u201cNap time was novel time for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the couple decided rearing kids in LA wasn\u2019t ideal, and they began city shopping. Wood, a Mississippi native, and Petrovitch, from D.C., were drawn to the South, but both wanted a metropolitan area.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made a spreadsheet of cities we were interested in and ranked them on natural beauty, diversity and airport,\u201d Wood says. \u201cAtlanta came in first. We came to visit, and on the drive to our Airbnb, I kept saying, \u2018Look at the trees! Look at the flowers!\u2019 The natural beauty was stunning.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the couple learned their daughters, now 8 and 10, could attend The Galloway School, they immediately started house hunting and landed in Chastain Park. \u201cWe absolutely love living in Buckhead and the easy-living lifestyle,\u201d Wood says. \u201cIt feels like you\u2019re on vacation in your house.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now settled, Wood is working on the screenplay of Ladykiller and another of her other thrillers, The Lion\u2019s Den, written under the pen name Katherine St. John. And she\u2019s working on her fifth book, set in St. Barth\u2019s, and scheduled for a summer 2025 release. Even when she\u2019s out with the dog, she\u2019s working. \u201cI spend a lot of time walking around with my dog and thinking,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m always figuring out plot points.\u201d<\/p>\n
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