Has All The Trappings Of A Mystery

My Friends Call Me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

We Create Our Own Worlds. We Destroy Our Own Worlds. It Is That Simple.

If Everybody, Every Day, Would Try To Do One Thing That Pulls Them Beyond Themselves The World Will Start Being A Better Place.

I Hate The Term "mystery". That's Not What I Write. I Think The Scarpetta Novels Are Much More Character-driven Than An Average Puzzle Solver. Writing Should Be Like A Pane Of Glass - There's Another World On The Other Side And Your Vision Carries You There, But You're Not Aware Of Having Passed Through A Barrier To Get There.

On The Last Morning Of Virginia's Bloodiest Year Since The Civil War, I Built A Fire And Sat Facing A Window Of Darkness Where At Sunrise I Knew I Would Find The Sea.