When people ask me what is my main inspiration
I say it is the ancient Greek drama
if you take a play like Medea that's written 2300 years ago
it is about a woman who murders her children because of jalousy in relation to her husband
if that is not a crime story, I don't know what a crime story is
the only difference is that there is no police officer in it
because in Greece at that time there was no police force
but I can assure you if they had had a police force, there would also have a policeman in the play
but this story uses the mirror of crime to look upon contradictions in society
that is what interests me.
Look at McBeth, take McBeth and put Richard Nixon in there:
you have the same story, in a way.
And then I can say that, yes, there are also pure crime fictions that inspire me.
For example Sherlock Holmes.
Because many histories talk about English society,
about hypocrisy, about many things
So, I don't see any differences by writing crime fiction or another novel
I think, I put up my cheek a little and say that crime fiction is one of the oldest literary genre that exists
it's not invented by Edgar Alan Poe, it's much older than that.
All of my ancestors were musicians, they were playing in churches, organ players and
my grandfather was a composer and I think that when I was young I also thought of myself as a musician
but I realised quite quickly that (I was playing the violin) that I would never be as good as I would want to be
so I, in a way, chose another instrument because you have to understand that writing is a sort of instrument you have in your hands
But on the other hand you might say that music is a very essential part of writing