In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

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

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

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

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.