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I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is…

— Karin Slaughter

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

— Denise Mina

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

— Karin Slaughter

I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of…

— Nick Petrie

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

— Jo Nesbo

I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James M. Cain,…

— James Lee Burke

For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to…

— Laura Lippman

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

— Stanley Ellin

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

— Karin Slaughter

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see…

— Carl Hiaasen

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

— John Connolly

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

— Megan Abbott