I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.

A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.