Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.

A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.

I don't understand people who say they're bored. Look out your window.

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

I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I try to bring that to my work because I think people can read your excitement about a story.

The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot if the character work wasn't there. So, basically every book I work on starts with me thinking not just about the bad thing that's going to happen, but how that bad thing is going to ripple through the community, the family of the victim, and the lives of the investigators. I am keenly aware when I'm working that the crimes I am writing about have happened to real people. I take that very seriously.

sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.