Ardal O'Hanlon Quotes

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

'Unforgotten' was a bit of a no-brainer. I'm a big fan of crime dramas, but often the 'investigation' part goes much too smoothly - and you don't get that with this.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

I'm very good at solving mysteries.

Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on his intuition and experience.

I am a fan of crime investigative series.

Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to write a true detective story.

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.

I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

I think, very often, we're addicted to procedurals, those good guy/bad guy shows, and the 'problem' with procedurals is they all follow the same formula: The bad guy does his thing, the good guy goes after him, and in most cases, the good guy figures out who did it and catches him.