Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?
I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.
The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.