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I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross the line: bad cops.

I don't hang out with cops.

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I grew up in a family that was working-class, which taught me to be careful with money.

My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would be allocated to cover bills.

My father worked in a grocery store. When the grocery chain went into administration, he eventually got a job in the naval dockyard in an office preparing the charts for the boats and the submarines before they headed out.

I have a strong work ethic, yet I'm incredibly lazy as well. The problem with being a writer is that everything you do can be called research. Sitting in the pub is research. Reading the newspaper can be research.

My parents were working class and didn't have much money, so holidays tended to be two weeks in a caravan at St. Andrews or a B&B in Blackpool.

When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.

In 1991, I won the Chandler Fulbright Prize, which came with $20,000 and the stipulation of spending six months in the U.S.

I go to Canada at least every two years.

'Jekyll and Hyde' I read in high school. I was expecting a Hollywood-type horror story and couldn't believe it when I got this very complex narrative from all these different points of view.

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any instruments.

I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.

I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine not writing, because I've done it since I was five or six. Maybe I'd work in academia. That's...

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

I'm not Rebus. We're not the same. I don't even think he'd like me if we met. He'd think I was a wishy-washy liberal.

The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in love with crime fiction.

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

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