Nothing Kinder Than Strangers. Nothing

I Had Wanted To Write Ghost Country For A Long Time, But It Wouldn't Work.

I'm Jealous Of Everyone Discovering Lovesey And Diamond For The First Time-you Have A Wonderful Backlist To Catch Up On. Me, All I Can Do Is Wait For The Next Book.

I Always Wrote; My First Story Was Published In The Magazine The American Girl When I Was 11

I Began Wanting To Create A Detective Who Really Turned The Tables On That Image Of Women, To Know That You Could Have A Sex Life And Not Be A Bad Person. You Could Have A Sex Life And Still Solve Your Own Problems. It Was Eight Years From When I Started Having The Fantasy That I Was Going To Create Such A Detective To When I Actually Sat Down And Came Up With V. I. Warshawski. It Was A Long, Slow Journey To Come To A Writing Voice And Do That Character.

Heart Surgeons Do Not Have The World's Smallest Egos: When You Ask Them To Name The World's Three Leading Practitioners, They Never Can Remember The Names Of The Other Two.