Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.

I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass - there's another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you're not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.