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

I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.

I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror in the sense of the genre known for it. It was more a type of pigeon-holing in bookshops.

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

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

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