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This is strictly for the Danes. But here’s what writer/screenwriter Kim Fupz Aakeson said about Stiletto for the back cover: “Palle Schmidt kan fortælle en historie, twiste, vinkle, overraske og tegne røven ud af bukserne på sine anløbne karakterer. Palle Schmidt er noir, cool og kuldslået. Der er serveret …”Kim Fupz Aakeson For non-Danish speakers: […]

Actually it’s pronounced Himenez, but… Jimenez is the arcehtypical grumpy boss you’ve seen in a thousand movies. He should be an ally, but is more like a threat. Like all of the police officers in STILETTO, he looks like he stepped out of a 70’s movie.

Maynard and Alphonse have hellhounds on their trail, in the shape of agents Kaplan and Khoury. I call them “Internal Division”, the agency set to sniff out dirty cops within the department. But can they be trusted?

I pay homage to a lot of 60’s and 70’s crime movies in STILETTO, most notably Bullit. Here is one of the more noticeable spots.

The name of this character says a lot about his nature. Based on the Italian version of the noir genre, “Giallo” means “yellow” or “false”. Yellow is also one of the more prominent colors in the book. As you can tell from this sequence, Giallo doesn’t have a sense of humor. Can you trust a guy like […]

One of the subplots in STILETTO is the foosball – or “table soccer” – game that Maynard leaves at the station house. The game attracts so much attention, that phones go unanswered and crimes go unsolved.