Books Quote by George Pelecanos

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

— Megan Abbott

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

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put…

— Alafair Burke

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime”

— Andrew Hixson

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

— John Banville

In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself…

— Peter Temple

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.

— Alastair Reynolds

That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

— Karin Slaughter

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.

— Sophie Hannah

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

— John Connolly

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