I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.