Occupation: Writer Birth: August 22, 1948
...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set ….
If you and I took a walk down a shopping street in Jo'burg or Cape Town or London, we see two guys looking in a shop window, we think, "Oh, they're w….
To read is human, to review is divine..
I like dogs. Dogs don't judge people..
I've always been much more scared of the living than I am of the dead..
I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character..
Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly..
Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity..
There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of p….
The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that spell in the late eighti….
Stalin was experimenting with telepathy in the 1930's. Winston Churchill had a paranormal office, trying to get people to travel out of their bodies ….
I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour..
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….
Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer..
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'..
The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence..
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….
The world is changing and people don't like change..
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….
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 ….