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I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two…
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I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything…
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Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed…
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do…
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have…
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Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
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I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had…
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To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
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Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.
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What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
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Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like…
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When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will…
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Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels…
— Donald Ray Pollock
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I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything…
— Steig Larsson
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I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time…
— Maj Sjowall
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There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.
— Denise Mina
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I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.
— Megan Abbott
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
— Kate Mosse
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Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward…
— James Sallis
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In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used…
— Stieg Larsson
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I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people…
— Stieg Larsson
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Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong…
— Sophie Hannah
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