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The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.

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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.

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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.

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We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.

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I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.

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If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: June 4th, 1955

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