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

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

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.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

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

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.