“We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside… — Steen Langstrup 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
“At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared… — Gillian Flynn 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
The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and… — Michael Connelly 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
“Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish.” — Mark Billingham Copy Share Image
“One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there.’… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“It was the members of the public who didn't seem to care what was happening on the streets around them, who hurried… — Simon Kernick Copy Share Image
“I came very close to saying no, and I often wonder how things would have turned out if I had. I'm being… — Simon Kernick 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
“ychoA STARTLING DISCOVERY POINTS TO GUILT ... BUT OF WHAT? "The feeling lingered all the way to the landing, increasingly unkempt, slowly… — Kevin Morris 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
“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
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“THAT NIGHT, AT ONE OF LONDON’S OPEN-MIC SESSIONS, A YOUNG comedian enjoyed his first success, telling the tale of the naked Yank… — Anthony Chapman Copy Share Image
“On a Wednesday morning in mid-June, Eli Sharpe was sitting at his desk treating jetlag with strong coffee when he heard a… — Max Everhart 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
I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Harry sensed the onset of resignation. No, he bloody didn't! On the FBI course they had examined cases where it had taken… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
