Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

Calix shook his head. “Don’t mind him. Logan is what happens when kids don’t get hugged enough.

I love you too much to lose you over something so little. “Roommates With Benefits.

I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious.

Wasn't that the way of the world, though? Only the strong survived, and the weak perished.

The duke understood the danger in having an important conversation too often in one's head before having it with the intended party.

Only your mind can produce fear.

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.