Most Of The People Who Write To

Most Of The People Who Write To Me Are Really Clever, Really Engaged. They Just Want To Say That They Have Read My Book And Liked It.

I Grew Up In London Under Thatcher And That Really Was Disgusting. A Feeding Frenzy.

I Hate It When I'm Reading A Comic, And The Dialogue Looks Like Stickers Stuck On Top To Explain What's Going On. For Me The Best Is When Your Eye Goes In A Certain Point And Moves Through The Composition And Then Springs Out On The Dialogue, Or Gets Confused In The Image And Then Goes To The Dialogue For An Explanation.

People Are Interested In Crime Fiction When They're Quite Distanced From Crime. People In Darfur Are Not Reading Murder Mysteries.

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.