Mystery Novel Quotes

I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

I'm not 100% sure 'Rebecca' qualifies as a thriller, given it's three parts screwed-up love story and two parts ghost-story-without-a-ghost, but the mystery at the heart of the novel is what happened to Maxim's first wife, the eponymous Rebecca, and it's unravelled with the pacing and finesse of the finest psychological thrillers out there.

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

I've always really liked murder mysteries and thrillers, and great to be able to be actually part of one.

There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee.

I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write.

Hans Zimmer and I considered 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows' to be a steampunk genre; our inspiration came from Sherlock's own travels.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

I've been in an Agatha Christie called 'The Sittaford Mystery,' which I enjoyed, but 'The Pale Horse' has a real sense of intrigue and the jigsaw pieces fitting together.

Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the setting is intoxicating and the plot unwinds in dark illusory strands, reminiscent of Gorky Park. Once I started, I didn't want to put it down.

...and then a murder mystery will occur.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

I'm going to do a sequel to 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' and this one is called 'The Girl in the Spider's Web', which is an American production. It's a clean slate: new cast, new director and everything and they're skipping from book one to book four.

I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains echoes of all that has been great about Straub's previous work and builds upon it. This Rashomon-like tale is as spooky and frightening as anything he has written, but it's also an intense and moving celebration of love. Out of the darkness comes, ultimately, a surprising and haunting sense of joy.

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.