Val McDermid Quotes

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.