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.
Denise MinaI'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.
Denise MinaA man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.
Denise MinaI respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.
Denise Mina