I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

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

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.