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.

Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.

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

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

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

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.