The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.