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I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.

When you're struggling to survive, no one gets to label you a coward, not even you yourself in your private thoughts.

A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

I guess my ideals died the hardest. It's often that way with the children of immigrants. We need to buy the dream so bad we sometimes can't wake up.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

Rule number something or other
never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

about your actions. You keep me totally in

Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.

I'm a daydreamer.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.

Write what you care about.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

Ship," he said absently. "A boat is something you haul aboard a ship.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.