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.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon. They weren't ready. The attempt was a failure. It could have been a disaster, but it was actually a miracle. Because nobody noticed.

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

Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.

The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.