I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.