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I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.

I read a lot of detective novels.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.