Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ...What crime novel would you most like to have written?
I really don’t know. I like too many things to pick just one.
What fictional character would you most like to have been?
I wouldn’t, not even my own. I really liked Phil Rickman’s answer to this question, especially considering what crime writers tend to do to their characters.
Who do you read for guilty pleasures?
I should feel guilty for reading? But ... but ...
Most satisfying writing moment?
Going back over difficult-to-write scenes and realizing you nailed them. Or the moment when that plot twist pops fully formed into your head and you know it’s going to change your story from something ordinary into something several notches above. "The End" carries only limited satisfaction for me, because it means I have to leave the world I’ve spent so much time in.
The best Irish crime novel is …?
Since my entire exposure to any Irish crime fiction has been the Sister Fidelma series, I’m probably not best qualified to answer this question.
What Irish crime novel would make a great movie?
See above.
Worst / best thing about being a writer?
Worst--those days when you have to force yourself behind the keyboard. Best--Knowing that someone else gets what you’re written.
The pitch for your next book is …?
Patty O’Donnell becomes an unwilling pawn in a game of revenge between an Argentine ex-military officer and a man whose wife was among the disappeared in the Dirty War.
Who are you reading right now?
Currently reading COUNCIL OF THE CURSED by Peter Tremayne.
God appears and says you can only write OR read. Which would it be?
Ah, but how can you write without reading? God is not that unreasonable...
The three best words to describe your own writing are …?
Tight, visual, fast.
BLOOD MONEY by Pepper Smith is available now.
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