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

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.