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• ‟ I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

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• ‟ I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

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• ‟ People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

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• ‟ There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

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• ‟ Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

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