Writing fiction is murder...and so is watching or reading it...
Bryce Main
Multi-genre author, mostly Crime fiction. Scottish. Been writing longer than I’ve been wearing big boy’s trousers.
Of all the kinds of writing there are (and believe me, there are enough kinds to fill a world full of bookshops and libraries) my own personal favourite has, is, and always will be, crime fiction.?
There are probably a hundred very good reasons for that. Some too dark and murderous to go into here without a shrink on call.?
I think it stretches back to the detective movies I used to devour as a kid. Edward G…Humphry B…and a thousand other tough guys ready to fire the imagination of an easily impressed punk in short trousers with a snotty nose.?
An underdeveloped scribbler.?
A rebel without a clause.
I was never interested in movies where nothing dangerous ever happened.
I always wanted to see a dead body full of question marks.?
I’ve never been attracted to rom-coms or musicals or period dramas.?
Give me a good old detective tale any day (or night).?
Give me the Black Bird…or anything Bogie… or anything Marlow…or anything Sherlock…or The Big Sleep…or even the small one.?
Give me L.A. Confidential…or the hunt for the Zodiac Killer…or even Chinatown.
Give me a great private eye…or a thumping police procedural.?
Maybe that’s why, instead of looking for a good crime novel to curl up with, in the company of a large Southern Comfort, I eventually decided to quit writing advertising copy and take up writing crime novels.?
Maybe that’s why my debut crime novel is with my publisher as we speak.?
Maybe that’s why I like the idea of putting fictional killers behind bars…or in the ground…by the time the last page arrives. Full of bullet holes.?
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Maybe that’s why, every time I read a really good murder mystery, I see dead people...?
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