I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?

Consider this a fair warning.