Brighton has two universities. It's got a massive young, middle-class community, and the largest gay community in the UK. The result of which is a hu….

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….

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….

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

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 ….

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

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

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 ….

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 like dogs. Dogs don't judge people..

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….

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 ….

Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded..

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….

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….

Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly..

There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever..

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

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character..

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

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….