The world is changing and people don't like change..

Every profession has its own culture, but the police look at the world differently to everybody else. I call it a 'healthy culture of suspicion'..

Women are afraid of walking at night, that someone pulls them into an alley and rapes them. That almost never happens. I mean, 98% of people who are ….

We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and I think we give off a huge am….

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence..

My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that ….

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love..

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid..

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain..

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced..

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world..

Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with relish. 'I read a while ago….

What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's got th….

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had….

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer..

There's a difference between what I call a dumb ghost and a smart ghost. The smart ghost is Hamlet's father - you know, he says, "Get revenge, my son….

I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour..

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas..

Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we mig….

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, wh….

A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, wh….