Peters is a prolific, versatile, accomplished writer, with a passion for bringing the past to life in meaningful ways that touch on modern lives and with a strong sense of the flowing, almost musical, prose of the period of which she writes.
Peters asserts in The Writer that she has never been attracted to the "pure puzzle, with a cast of characters kept deliberately two-dimensional and all equally expendable at the end." Instead, she is interested in the "paradoxical puzzle, the impossible struggle to create a cast of genuine, rounded, knowable characters caught in conditions of stress," and then "to let the readers know everything about them, feel with them, like or dislike them, and still to try to preserve to the end the secret of which of these is a murderer." Consequently, she believes a good detective novel should be a good novel, multidimensional with serious themes involving politics, religions, family, and society; a study of human development and change; a portrait of the individual within a community; and a treatment of universal concerns such as love and death.
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