Neil Cross interview

Messing with minds and leaving viewers and readers up to their necks in the unspeakable is the Luther creator's ambition.

By Diana Wichtel In Books

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17th September, 2011

Interview

Early afternoon on one of those days of snow: where better to take in the chilly surreality of it all than perched vertiginously on a hill in Wellington’s Crofton Downs, sipping sparkling water in the living room of a scary crime writer? Neil Cross spends a lot of his life creating pitiless scenes that can snap-freeze your marrow. “The things people do to each other,” sighs a cop in his latest novel, Luther: The Calling. In Cross’s considerable oeuvre, which includes novels, television series and, recently, working on scripts in Canada for director Guillermo del Toro, ...

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