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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
I wasn't a huge crime reader when I came into this genre, and I think it probably showed.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
I wrote books that were a little bit different to a lot of the police procedurals that were the bread and butter of the genre.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
But I fell in love with someone like James Lee Burke and his Robuchet character and Michael Connolly, Harry Bosch.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
And, you know, Rebus, of course, Ian Rankin's, you know, Scottish detective.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
So there are characters that I, you know, I just think have stood the test of time.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
They're remarkable and I will keep going back to them.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
I think to a degree where you're absolutely right.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
I mean, the newspaper serial was incredibly important and it showed in the fact that you then saw, you know, whether newspaper, sorry, in TV series or whether it be The Lone Ranger or, you know, whether it be The Western or The Detective, it was the same character that came back week after week.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
People fell in love with the character.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
I always loved the story when Ian Rankin with Rebus, retired Rebus at the age of 60, because in Scotland that was when detectives had to retire.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
And there was actually a motion in Scottish Parliament to extend the life and career of detectives and make them retire at 65.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
And it was primarily because they wanted Rebus to come back.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
A lot of detectives are now quite cross in Scotland because they changed the law and Rebus also came back.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
But look...
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
I think, again, because of Parkinson's, you know, and I would, you know, it's, I mean, I want the disease cured for all those people suffering, you know, more so than obviously for my main character.
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But it may be possible it'll come back as a minor character in some future book.
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But at this stage, I think in The Other Wife, I leave him in a good place or a better place than I normally do.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
And so I'm quite happy that this will be the last.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
I do terrible things to people I love.
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On Enza Gandolfo's The Bridge, Hallgrímur Helgason's The Woman at 1000 Degrees, The Book Ninja & Michael Robotham's The Other Wife
A book called My Absolute Darling by Gabrielle Talent.