I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

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

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.