Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

Who do you love? It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing. Who do you love?