Mark Billingham
...on the novel without which he wouldn't have become a writer...
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
“I don’t think it’s very often you can genuinely say that without a book you wouldn’t be doing what you’re doing. It really turned me on to crime fiction as a reader. Without this book, it’s arguable that people like myself wouldn’t be writing this kind of stuff: we’d all still be writing detective fiction set in vicarages. ”
