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I go where I want to go, I do what I want to do, and I am beholden to no one. — Mark M. DeRobertis

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer. — Karin Slaughter

The smell of beer surrounded him in a cloud as if he'd been doused in Eau de Frat Boy cologne. — B.V. Lawson

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next. — Alexa Grace

I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head. - Stephanie Carovella — Nina D'Angelo

Blood doesn't speak of its owner. — Mita Jain

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader. — Michael Koryta

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels. — Maj Sjowall

She was a tornado in a skirt. — B.V. Lawson

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels. — Kate Mosse

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels. — Denise Mina

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is ... ' then name a really brilliant crime writer. — Sophie Hannah

He wore his personality like a suit that was too tight. — B.V. Lawson

We all have something special in us, it's a matter of finding it, and knowing what to do with it. — Robert Magarian

The morning drizzle tightened the District's notorious braided-knot commute into a noose of traffic. - Scott Drayco — B.V. Lawson

You will never finish your novels if you don't take it one word at a time — Terrence LeRoy Baker

Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge. — B.V. Lawson

Steve had just met the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Until now his engagement to Christine had never been a concern. — Stephen Douglass

The reader is the final arbiter. — Sam Reaves

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books. — Jo Nesbo

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct. — Stieg Larsson

The blight of office cubes housing lawyers and lobbyists had popped up like chokeweeds in the manicured lawn of the family homestead. — B.V. Lawson

The M.E. dissected pieces of a corpse to tell a story, while Drayco tried to bring them back from the dead, jagged piece by jagged piece. — B.V. Lawson

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time. — Sara Sheridan

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective. — Michael Connelly

Everywhere on our planet one hand greases another. Often it's done with a bloated face, wearing a serpent's smile.
M.Sullivan — Mike Sullivan

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time. — Brian Hodge

I came, I saw, I concurred... — Darren E. Laws

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them. — Tom Greer

He was one of the few men who didn't aspire to be alpha as long as he was in on the hunt. — B.V. Lawson

He was a Super Politician, defender of untruths, injustice and the American power-play. — B.V. Lawson

Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign. — B.V. Lawson

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life. — Donald Ray Pollock

Both men were pictures of the kind of grief that cauterizes open wounds in memory and turns them into black scars. — B.V. Lawson

Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
Virgil — Debby Grahl

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels. — Megan Abbott

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club. — Mark Billingham

The sliver of sun turned water crystals among the coal-colored clouds into the halo of a sundog. — B.V. Lawson

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family. — John Banville