Occupation: Writer Birth: August 22, 1948
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 ….
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….
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….
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..
I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror in the sense of the gen….
I've always been much more scared of the living than I am of the dead..
...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 ….
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..
Music is an important part of my writing process..
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning..
I like dogs. Dogs don't judge people..
Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded..
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….
There's no question that ghosts exist. The big question for me is whether ghosts are simply electronic imprints left in the walls or the atmosphere o….
Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career..
To read is human, to review is divine..
Police do get obsessed with solving crimes. You know, particularly if there's been a murder, it becomes personal for the police officer very quickly,….
If you go into a bar or restaurant with a cop, the first thing he does is he'll stand in the entrance, and he'll look at every single face in that ro….
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..