An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
“We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together.”
“For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.”