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I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.