What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

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.

Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.