I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.