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I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

— Katie Price

The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time…

— Alastair Reynolds

We tend to think of crime fiction as reading designed for entertainment - not education. It delivers an almost pure kind of readerly pleasure:…

— Sarah Weinman

I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of…

— Nick Petrie

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very…

— Michael Koryta

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

— Steve Schirripa

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 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

I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details in my…

— Michael Connelly

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

— Bill James

I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's…

— Peter Robinson

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything…

— Emilia Fox