Liza Minnelli

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.