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

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

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

Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.

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

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.