When Good Things Come of Bad Omens

This is exactly how the mind of a crime novelist works. In a brief interview with New Mystery Magazine, Linwood Barclay, Canadian author of the new thriller No Time for Goodbye, is asked whether his years of writing fiction have made him more suspicious than normal of his family and neighbors. He responds:

It’s not so much that I’m viewing my neighbors with suspicion. I’m more intrigued by how ordinary events can lead to catastrophe. A letter delivered to the wrong address. A set of keys left hanging from a front door. A sharp, upturned knife in a dishwasher cutlery rack. I see those things and think, “Something really bad could come from that.”

You can read the full interview here.