Authors:
  • I don't believe that murders can be "solved." I think that this is the big lie of the mystery novel, that you should close the book and feel that the world is back in order and everything's all right. I want the reader to know that the world is not all right, and maybe we ought to do something about it.

    Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.