Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.