“familiar with Scandinavian crime fiction – Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Karin Fossum, Håkan” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“I go where I want to go, I do what I want to do, and I am beholden to no one.” — Mark M. DeRobertis Copy Share Image
“The best crime fiction is not so much a search and rescue mission, but a recovery mission.” — Christopher G. Moore Copy Share Image
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. — Karin Slaughter 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
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
“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
“I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman… — Catherine Astolfo Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
“It brings me peace to know that it all began with crime fiction as a child, and that it is there, after… — Sara Blaedel Copy Share Image
“His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the… — 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
“Mee and Ow sat in the shade of a mango tree and were doing their make-up. Both of them wore gloves that… — Tom Vater Copy Share Image
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or… — Peter Temple 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
“My style isn't subtle, I know that. I'm sure in fact it violates all kinds of rules about interrogation and all that,… — Kendric Neal 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
“Chapter 1 I was sitting in Tina's Sunset Restaurant, watching the outriggers shuffle lazily through the clear waters of Sabang Bay, when… — Simon Kernick Copy Share Image
“Nelson is glad to see a handler and her dog coming towards him. The recognises the woman as Jan Adams, famous in… — Elly Griffiths Copy Share Image
“He was one of those men who can both get money and keep it. He must have been a millionaire. He kept… — Gerald Kersh Copy Share Image
Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none… — Leslie Ford 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
I'm most interested in people who've lived life in the extreme, which is what draws me to crime fiction. — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
