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For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular person in a... →
I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When... →
I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and... →
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person's mind and have an... →
I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than... →
I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I think I do... →
I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could... →
I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few... →
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful... →
My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be... →
My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in... →
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she... →
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... →
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