The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

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

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents herself in a sexual way, who is the main bad person. And then you start reading more fiction, whether crime fiction or straight fiction, it's just bad girls trying to make good boys do bad things, going all the way back to Adam and Eve. The woman that thou gavest me made me do it, Adam says to God.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more