Death Is Just Nature's Way Of Making

A News Junkie, I Read, Daily, The 'times/sunday Times,' The 'guardian/observer,' 'mail,' And The 'argus' - Both To Keep Up With Crime In Brighton, Where I Set My Novels, And Because I Think It Is Vital To Support Local Papers - They Provide A Unique Accountability For Councils, Emergency Services And So Much Else, And Are Dangerously Undervalued.

If You Go Into A Bar Or Restaurant With A Cop, The First Thing He Does Is He'll Stand In The Entrance, And He'll Look At Every Single Face In That Room Because He Doesn't Want To Spend An Hour Having A Drink Or Lunch And Didn't Spot Some Villain They've Been Looking For, For Two Years.

The Crime Genre's Always Been Regarded Very Well By The Literary End Of The Book World, Whereas Horror, Although It Had That Spell In The Late Eighties, By And Large, It's Sort Of Ghetto-ized, And Considered To Be Exploited Literature.

Police Do Get Obsessed With Solving Crimes. You Know, Particularly If There's Been A Murder, It Becomes Personal For The Police Officer Very Quickly, And It Gets To The Family. Even After They've Retired, They Carry On, Not Letting Go.

Stalin Was Experimenting With Telepathy In The 1930's. Winston Churchill Had A Paranormal Office, Trying To Get People To Travel Out Of Their Bodies And See Behind Enemy Lines In The Second World War. And The Pentagon... The X-files Is Based On A Real Department In The Pentagon, That's Still There Now. Pretty Much Every Government, Probably As Far Back In Time As We Can Go, Has One. And The Police Will Quite Often - And When I Say Often, I Mean Often - They Will Go To Mediums If All Else Fails In The Enquiry.