I would love to do a mystery movie.
Picnic at Hanging Rock' is the exemplary study of disapparition in cinema - I know of no other major film which deals with unexplained disappearance.
If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
Is there anything about the JonBenet Ramsey case that isn't weird and disturbing?
There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.
The lack of closure in an unsolved case seems to have a sharpening effect on those left behind; the details remain vivid to them even years later, possibly because they've gone over them looking for answers so many times.
The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
I like mysteries.
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.
In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.
The stories I read or get attracted to have a kind of thrill element, or a crime.
