"I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight."
"All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado."
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Source: Lisa Gardner (2009). “The Neighbor: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel”, p.454, Bantam
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