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• ‟ When I began to write, I was surprised at how little London had been used in crime fiction. Places such as Edinburgh or Oxford or L.A. seemed to have stronger identities.

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• ‟ Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.

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• ‟ The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.

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• ‟ Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.

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• ‟ Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.

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