Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula

Kiss those cuffs good-bye." Lula from "Hard Eight" By Janet Evonavich

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

He had a body like batman

I wasn't dating anyone. I was fornicating with Batman.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.

We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a person might use to pass on a favorite lasagna recipe. And I was responding with the same enthusiasm a new cook might show. I was simultaneously horrified and impressed with myself.