Dining room Quote by Morgan Mandel

I always loved watching and reading family-friendly mysteries growing up, like the shows Murder, She Wrote and Nancy Drew, and am thrilled to be…

— Candace Cameron

“She did find that the books displayed prominently in every chamber had been dusted, but the spines were pristine and uncreased. They had the…

— Genevieve Cogman

“There are only so many hours in the day for amateur pursuits—and very few writers are as gifted as Wallace Stevens or T. S.…

— Franklin Foer

“And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets…

— Raymond Chandler

Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader.…

— Sophie Hannah

“Put it in terms of the not-too-serious, if you like. Who got into that locked room? And how was it done? And why should…

— Carter Dickson

“A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten”

— Cynthia Batten

“Good writers look it up. Great writers experience it.”

— Ebony Easter

“Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.”

— Russell Lynes

I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by…

— A. S. Byatt

“A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page...”

— Cynthia Batten

I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in…

— Isabel Allende