Sarah Weinman Quotes

Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.'

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.

In America, they have specialist mystery book stores with whole sections devoted to cat mysteries, golf mysteries, quilting mysteries. It's a hugely broad genre from the darkest noir to tales of a 19th-century vet who solves crimes, thanks to his talking cat.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Anyone who was tempted to draw comparisons between my father's 'Dave Robicheaux' series and my first book quickly gave up.

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

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

I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself to the level of literature.

One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.

For whatever reason, I am just very attracted to mystery stories, solving mysteries. I was a huge fan of 'The Jinx.' That's such a satisfying show because it's all... I don't want to give it away to anybody, but it's really amazing.

I am a huge fan of shows like 'Breaking Bad,' 'Dexter,' 'The Mentalist.'

I love crime series.

I actually went back and watched all of 'True Detective''s Season One again, which I think is a true masterpiece.

My wife loves to watch 'Criminal Minds' and 'CSI' and all those shows.

We loved 'The Crown.' And 'The Killing' and 'The Fall' with Gillian Anderson. All those crime shows are always super fun.