Journalism Is A Darwinian Process.

A Man Who Thinks He Has A Higher Purpose Can Do Terrible Things, Even To Those He Professes To Love.

Crime Is A Very Hard Genre To Feminise. If You Have A Female Protagonist She Is Going To Be Looking After Her Mum When She Gets Older; She Is Going To Be Worried About Her Brother And Sister; She Will Be Making A Living While Bringing Up Kids.

Because I Write A Book A Year, I Always Want To Do One Other Project Every Year That's Stimulating In A Different Way. It Means You Can Be Working But Not Using Up Your Prose Juice, You Know?

In Prose, Leaps Of Logic Can Be Made While The Protagonist Thinks About Things And Arrives At Conclusions. Even With Voiceover, There's No Real Way Of Having An Inner Voice Without It Taking Over The Entire Story.

Novelisation Doesn't Imply The Truth. Readers Are Sophisticated Enough To Know That.