Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.

The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.