I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

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

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

I am a bit of a Dudley Do-Gooder, though, because if I see a car accident or something bad happen, I am one of those idiots who runs toward the problem instead of away from it. Not that I would recommend this behavior.

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.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.