There can be no true friends without true enemies
Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.
Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.
Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.
You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.
The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.