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Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.

Mark Billingham

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

James Q. Wilson

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Matthew Vaughn

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

Janet Fitch

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

Jesse Kellerman

Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.

Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.

Vicki Delany

Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

Bill James

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

Mireille Enos

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Stieg Larsson

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

Camilla Lackberg

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