None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?

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.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.