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I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature.

A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

I feel like I'm on the inside for the first time. Inside the castle. I have an Emmy nomination!

I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy.

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.

I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.