Occupation: Crime Writer Birth: 1950
Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them..
Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do..
Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity..
My line of work makes you aware of the fragility of life. You can get up in the morning, eat your cornflakes, blow-dry your hair, go to work and end….
Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all..
Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background..
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree….
Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoe….
I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there..
Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we acknowledge the ….
I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, ….
I work with the dead, but I am working for the living..
Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?.
Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve..
Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?.
Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of….
I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up..
Let's do it. Monkeys are always funny. You pretty much can't go wrong with a monkey, right? Hi paused. Well unless that monkey wants you dead, or doe….
I can't believe you jokers fixed it." Hi was picking his way down to the beach. "Believe it, clown. Too much brain power here to fail." Still pumped,….
My first book was the most successful debut novel in the UK ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the UK. Clearly the British know….
I’m adding ‘canine’ to my searches,” I said. “And ‘instinct.’” “Whatever. I’m adding ‘lunatic..