Casey Blackbird

“You’ve written all these pages and nobody’s been killed.’ ‘I have to set the scene! And anyway, you know perfectly well that there’s more to a novel – even a crime novel – than violent death. It’s all about character and atmosphere and language. Why do you think people read Jane Austen? She wrote thousands of pages and she never felt the need to murder anyone.’ ‘Actually, that’s not true. Anna Parker murdered both her parents and she was planning to do the same to her sister.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Close to Death