Bones Quote by James Sallis

“a serious contender for my book of year. I can't believe I only discovered Chris Carter a year ago and I now consider him…

— ayaz mallah

Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have…

— Jimmy Carter

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to…

— Denise Mina

Eric Carter is a more raw, more emotional protagonist. He's a bit of an Everyman.

— Corey Hawkins

“I loved the True Crime Story "Fighting the Devil" by Jeannie Walker. It is such an interesting book.”

— Jeannie Walker

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his…

— Jo Nesbo

In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved the writing…

— Nick Petrie

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards'…

— Jo Nesbo

“He realized that he agonized over everything all the time, and he admitted that part of the problem in the Carter game had been…

— H.G. Bissinger

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

TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page…

— Tasha Alexander

Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of…

— Allan Massie