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In 1991, I won the Chandler Fulbright Prize, which came with $20,000 and the stipulation of spending six months in the U.S.

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'Jekyll and Hyde' I read in high school. I was expecting a Hollywood-type horror story and couldn't believe it when I got this very complex narrative from all these different points of view.

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I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any instruments.

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I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.

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I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine not writing, because I've done it since I was five or six. Maybe I'd work in academia. That's always what the plan was.

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In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

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I'm not Rebus. We're not the same. I don't even think he'd like me if we met. He'd think I was a wishy-washy liberal.

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The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in love with crime fiction.

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People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

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When I'm writing, I won't know whodunnit until maybe two thirds of the way through. Until then, I know as little as my detective. I just make it up as I go along. It's nerve-wracking, actually. You'll be half through and not know your conclusion. You worry one of these days the ending won't come. I'll be left with only two-thirds of a novel.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: April 28th, 1960

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