Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.
Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?
As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!
Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.
I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.
What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.