I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.

A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.