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.

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

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

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 don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.