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.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

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.

Thoughts are odd misfires.

Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.