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.

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

The first day of the rest of my life.

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.