In this feature, we ask our Crime Cymru authors to name six things that influenced their life and shaped them as a writer. This week it’s the turn of G. B. Williams.

Six of One

1. One Film

Blade Runner. I loved this film from the very first viewing – even with the voice over that gets a bad rap. I have lost count of the number of times that I’ve watched the various cuts. Rick Deckard is a police officer with a very specific task, he might even be a replicant himself, argue that as you will. Though not the first future policeman I’d ever seen, it was the one that made me think they could be interesting. I have read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the book on which the film is based, and unusually I would struggle to say which was the best. They…