There's No Question That Ghosts Exist. The

My Day Starts With Radio 4's Today Live Or 'listen Again' Wherever I Am In The World, Thanks To Digital Radio - I Even Have An App On My Iphone That Receives It.

Every Profession Has Its Own Culture, But The Police Look At The World Differently To Everybody Else. I Call It A 'healthy Culture Of Suspicion'.

Life's Not Some Slot Machine In An Arcade With A Sign That Flashes Up Saying 'i'm Sorry, You Have Been Killed. Would You Like Another Go?' But We Might Get Put Through The Same Test Each Time, Get Faced With The Same Situations Until We've Learned How To Cope.

I Think That Brighton, For A Crime Writer, Is Almost Like A Character.

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.