Book Quote by Joy Ellis

“Why are the Fens flat? So God has a clear view...”

— Graham Swift

Writing a book is not a crime.

— Alexander Ahndoril

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics…

— Tom Araya

A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is…

— Le Ly Hayslip

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

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

— Anonymous

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people,…

— Anthony Horowitz

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

— Jacques Barzun

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

— George Sand

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

— Aesop Rock

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

— Floyd Cooper