I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
My preferred genre of reading is crime thrillers - books by Harlan Coben, Jo Nesbo, David Baldacci, James Patterson, Ashwin Sanghi and a few others - and I write crime thrillers.
If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.
I was a huge movie watcher, but I really loved 'Kenan & Kel,' 'Rugrats,' 'Doug,' & 'Catdog.' I was also into drama films, though, and I really loved 'Poetic Justice' and 'Set it Off.'
I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.
I like crime thrillers. I like heist movies.
Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.
I like 'Mad Men,' and I think 'The Killing' is pretty great too. I like 'Brothers & Sisters.'
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.
I enjoyed watching 'Mirzapur,' 'Sacred Games.' There are interesting shows.
I like watching old stuff. I like old Al Pacino movies. 'Serpico.' 'Dog Day Afternoon.'
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Narco fiction novels have a reputation, at least here in Mexico among some of the writers I know, of being somewhat rushed productions, usually written in one way or another like crime thrillers, with something cheesily exploitative about them. It feels exploitive - taking this horrible and ongoing tragedy and trying to turn it into something entertaining. Or trying to turn it into something that might earn the writer a reputation of the sort that many writers believe they aspire to. Or earn them money.
I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.
