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My Upbringing Was Middle-class But My Parents' Families Were Both Working-class So I Had This Odd Combination Of Working-class Background But In A Privileged Position.

Crime Is A Very Hard Genre To Feminise. If You Have A Female Protagonist She Is Going To Be Looking After Her Mum When She Gets Older; She Is Going To Be Worried About Her Brother And Sister; She Will Be Making A Living While Bringing Up Kids.

I'd Read So Much Right-wing Crime Fiction Where They Find The Evidence And Shoot The Bad Guy - I Thought There Must Be Another Approach.

Because I Write A Book A Year, I Always Want To Do One Other Project Every Year That's Stimulating In A Different Way. It Means You Can Be Working But Not Using Up Your Prose Juice, You Know?

Journalism Is A Darwinian Process.