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.
I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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.'
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.
I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.
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.
