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...This is the 21st book in the series. How have you come up with so many different plots? Part of what I do is keep charts of the books I've written, so I have a record of the gender of every killer, the gender of the victim, the motive for the crime and the nature of the climax - how does the book end? I also have a series of log lines for each book. In A Is for Alibi, Kinsey Milhone is hired to prove the innocence of a woman just out of prison for the murder...
...their families through is incredible because there are some people who are sexually abused, so it's difficult to sort out the true from the false in that circumstance. What interested me was the whole issue of what happens if you have no credibility, what happens if you've been in this circumstance and you've accused your parents of dastardly deeds and then recanted, and then the next thing you come up with, nobody is going to believe you. So I thought that was an interesting idea, the boy who cried wolf...
...nearing the end of the alphabet. What is going to happen? Well, given that I have been doing two years between books, which is making my life bearable, that means I've got five books to go, which is 10 years. I just don't know if any of us know what we are going to be doing in 10 years. Maybe I'll get a nursing degree. Maybe I'll become a professional ballerina. I don't know. [Laughs.] And I don't know what's going to happen to Kinsey Milhone because it's none of my business...
...naively announce their intentions to steer clear of Disney princesses and all their insidious influence. Of course, their daughters are still toddlers who have yet to traipse off to preschool and encounter pop culture, sandbox-style. I was once one of those mothers and still strive to be. I've never bought my girls a Cinderella or Ariel costume, and our DVD collection boasts no Disney titles, yet my daughter informed me last week, apropos of nothing, that Sleeping Beauty is to be referred to as Sleeping Beauty only when she's sleeping. Awake and alert, her name is Aurora...
...heart of assessing threats posed by radicalized Americans, who have rights that terrorists from outside the country do not. "That presents a very difficult set of questions about how do you balance the traditional law-enforcement approach to deal with those threats - which is typically how we've dealt with those things in the past - with the reality that you're dealing with people that are much harder to deter," Burck says. (See TIME's cover story on the Fort Hood massacre...