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I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

I read a lot of detective novels.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.

Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.