Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.

People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.