People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.