Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
Journalism is a Darwinian process.
There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.
I'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.