A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's out of a desire to really show what's going on at all times, how things smell and look, as well as from the knowledge that I don't want to push things too quickly through to climax; if I do, it won't mean anything. Everything has to be earned, and it takes a lot of work to earn.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.