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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.