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Minette Walters is an internationally bestselling author with more than 25 million copies of her books sold worldwide. She is the author of twelve novels, winning the CWA John Creasey Award for The Ice House, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for The Sculptress and two CWA Gold Daggers for The Scold's Bridle and Fox Evil. She lives in Dorset with her husband. After a break of 10 years, she is bursting on to the literary scene with her first stunning historical novel, The Last Hours.
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Where did your interest in crime come from?
Two things really. Reading Grimm's Fairy Tales as a child.
It's all about baddies getting their come-uppance and wicked stepmothers being
rolled down the hill. Then there was the James Hanratty A6 murder case in the
1950s. (involving a man hanged for a murder that many thought he didn't commit).
To hang someone with the level of doubt that existed in that case, it was so
dreadful. He was one of the last people to be hanged in Britain. I was only
about nine or 10-years-old then. But I was absolutely fascinated.
Why did you pick a psychological thriller as your
first book?
I have always been fascinated by the challenge that crime fiction
represents to an author. I wanted to know if I could carry an intricate plot for
100,000 words, and keep readers guessing, while I was portraying characters
under considerable tension.
Why don't you have a
series character?
I'm always asked why I chose not to create a series character like
Poirot or Rebus, but I was never interested in creating a series character
because I wanted to be free to tackle whatever I wanted, when I wanted, without
being shackled to a particular person or place.
Of the books you ...
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