Quick Fire with Kevin Brooks

There’s nothing like a high-speed quick fire interview with a sharp author to get the blood pumping. We caught up with Kevin Brooks this week, author of Wrapped in White, to ask him our Top Ten Dead Good Questions.

When we say quick, we mean quick…

1. Dead Good: What is your favourite word?
Kevin Brooks: Nothing

2. Who is your favourite fictional detective?
Matt Scudder

3. What is the scariest location you’ve ever been to?
Inside my head.

4. What’s your favourite film and why? Hombre, because it’s perfect
Hombre, because it’s perfect

5. What would your final meal be?
A million-mile-long sausage.

6. What is your favourite book cover of all time?
The Hyena and Other Men, by Pieter Hugo

7. Where do you write?
In my room.

8. Who is your favourite crime writer?
Raymond Chandler/James Lee Burke (equal favourites)

9. What’s your alcoholic tipple of choice?
Whatever’s going.

10. Which character in literature would you most like to go on a date with?
Eve (from the Bible)

Thank you to Kevin Brooks for answering our questions and we’re quite glad not to be inside his head! Want to tell us your answers to the Top Ten Dead Good Questions? Head over to our Facebook Page and let us know.