Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a suspenseful crime novel.
I like books like 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,' where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of the society where the crime took place.
In families like mine, there is no crime worse than telling the truth.
It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out.
I like crime thrillers. I like heist movies.
I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.
Having set its tonal template, Vertigo Crime laid low for a few months before starting in earnest at the beginning of 2010.
Transnational organized crime does not recognize any borders.
By definition, transnational crime crosses borders, but efforts to combat it mostly do not.
The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
At the October 1933 proceedings of the League of Nations in Madrid, Lemkin mounted a valiant effort to persuade the gathered ambassadors to define and agree to punish the crime of what we now call genocide. He failed.
Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of 'Helter Skelter' when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.
My one criticism of Vertigo Crime to date is that it's been a boys' club, reveling in violence that, while entertainingly lurid, lacks depth. Of course, the comics world is deliberately double-dimensional - and shouldn't apologize for being so.
You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL.
