Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms.” “Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

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.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.