I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

I'm a little bit of a control freak.