I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating