Quotes from Kerry Greenwood

I always like cases when the victim's been practically begging to be killed. It means I don't have to be sorry for him.

Unanswered questions make my head itch.

There are only so many stories in the world... Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most writers have read very extensively in their genre and have become aware they are adding an extra layer to the meta-narrative, finding a new spin on the original.

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.

I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.

In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.