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It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out of you.

I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?

Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?

You ever read Thucydides? I'll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing.

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

Greek mythology has always been my Achilles elbow.

A bullet in the head will fix an incipient asthma attack every time.

But this was Northern Ireland in 1981 which was slightly less conservative than, say, Salem in 1692

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself.

When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.

'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.

Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice.

More guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.

How do you feel about homosexuals, Mr. Scavanni?' I asked.
'I think they're great. More women for the rest of us,' he said sarcastically.

I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.

I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York.

He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to bloody hurt.

When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.

A black Mercedes Benz 450 SL pulled up. It was your classic hood auto beloved of terrorists, pimps and African dictators.

We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament.

Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee

Forget him, he's just another red-shirted extra making a cameo appearance in our lives.

If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good place to start if you're new to me and my books.

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.

People in the North are really taciturn and reticent, and they don't really like to talk about the past.

Twelve-year-old Islay. Good stuff if you liked peat, smoke, earth, rain, despair, and the Atlantic Ocean, and who doesn't like that?

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

You're a glass-half-empty kind of guy, sir, aren't you?"
"I don't even acknowledge the existence of the glass, son.

The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.

I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact.

Don't worry, Duffy. I like you. We'll kill you last.