There's no question that ghosts exist. The big question for me is whether ghosts are simply electronic imprints left in the walls or the atmosphere of places, or whether they do actually represent something from the afterlife.

Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

I've always been much more scared of the living than I am of the dead.

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.

There's no question that ghosts exist. The big question for me is whether ghosts are simply electronic imprints left in the walls or the atmosphere of places, or whether they do actually represent something from the afterlife.

Every profession has its own culture, but the police look at the world differently to everybody else. I call it a 'healthy culture of suspicion'.