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- Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. — John Banville
- I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction. — Harlan Coben
- The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun
- Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction. — Val McDermid
- Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier
- Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in… — Terrence Rafferty
- The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment. — Stanley Ellin
- Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P.D. James
- 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
- 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
- The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more. — Camilla Lackberg
- Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole… — Camilla Lackberg