You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.

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.

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.

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.