The World Is Changing And People Don't

I Get Asked To Read New Works A Lot, In The Hope That I Will Give A Quotation And I Will Only Give A 'puff' For A Book I Truly Love.

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.

The World Is Changing And People Don't Like Change.

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.

I Never Actually Wanted To Write Horror, Oddly Enough. It Was A Kind Of Misnomer, Because I Didn't Ever Actually Write Horror In The Sense Of The Genre Known For It. It Was More A Type Of Pigeon-holing In Bookshops.