I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical. (Tess Gerritsen)

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

Tess Gerritsen

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