The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.