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

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.

Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

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.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.