Romance, war and a journey into the heart of darkness

Then We Take Berlin

Despite the fact that it’s possibly the strongest element in classic crime fiction, and I grew up reading Dorothy Sayers, I have no interest in ‘whodunit’ whatsoever. If I have to define what I do, it’s that I’m very interested in the relationships between people.

“If I ever say that I’ll set another story in the concentration camps,” says author John Lawton, “you have my permission to shoot me.”