Laura Lippman

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.