If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

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.

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

My mother was a politician in my formative years.