“I just can’t comprehend, that you, Borge, of all people, couldn’t keep your mouth shut.” — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“Everyone should have a kid. They really put things in perspective. I know a guy can get you one cheap.” — Anthony Chapman Copy Share Image
“You ever choke a man out with his own shirt?” “What kind of question is that?” “A yes or no one.” — Todd Morr Copy Share Image
“More wisdom is contained in the best crime fiction than in philosophy.” — Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.” — Mel Healy Copy Share Image
“In policing, some uniforms and cars are black and white, but on the street, in the real world, nothing is black and… — Edmond Gagnon Copy Share Image
“Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn’t kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth.” — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
“Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
“No sun cream or condoms, just in case you’re looking at the lady-boys. There’s plenty of AIDS lingering about and every STD… — Simon Palmer Copy Share Image
“I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and… — Jeffrey Rasley Copy Share Image
“Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“All that crap about love and fairness and doing something with your life, Bruno ... Those are luxury problems. The CEO’s wife… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“Reaching for the basket of sex accoutrements, she took a thin, red tube, squeezed some clear gel onto her fingertips and returned… — Simon Palmer Copy Share Image
I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really… — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
“Payne sought clarification. “Vertical or horizontal?” “Horizontal, of course.” “Sorry but I can’t help you.” “Will you pipe down for a minute?… — Ed Lynskey Copy Share Image
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.” — B.V. Lawson Copy Share Image
This next to never happens, but if I had time to sit on a beach and read, I wouldn't read a cozy.… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole… — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
“That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.” #ShadowofSadd… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. — John Banville Copy Share Image
I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
My focus will always be crime, but it might not always be fiction, nor always for adults, nor books entirely in prose.… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Kaliya a poor village boy show us with endurance we can touch the sky & even after the death of our beloved,… — Sagar Patel Copy Share Image
I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
After I started writing crime fiction, I said to myself, 'I may be limited, but the genre's not. There's no reason to… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge.” — B.V. Lawson Copy Share Image
We tend to think of crime fiction as reading designed for entertainment - not education. It delivers an almost pure kind of… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“My name’s Alis K. From now on you will be Willy. Come on, let’s push the bicycles for a bit.” Ingrid aka… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
“When he shows I’ll say: ‘Good day, a bouquet for Mr. Hovgaard.’ Then you shoot him. Understood?” Ingrid aka ‘Alis K’ The… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
