Crime Fiction Quotes

Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.

I go where I want to go, I do what I want to do, and I am beholden to no one.

That's the thing about digging holes, ” Quinn said. “There are no assurances you'll find what you want—or want what you find.

All I knew was, my Father was famous for being a loser, and a loser that wanted nothing to do with me, since the day I was born.

Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.

Whose Daddy's Little Girl Now?

Regress towards progress - Dr Wannamaker

I've always said women are vicious creatures - Detective Zach Grimes

A pawn only needs to move five spaces to become the queen" - from Bhendi Bazaar

Man-eaters are finally shot dead.

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example.

Listen, we got two stiffs and a river of red in a villa in Herne Bay...

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.

His voice as smooth as silk, Grant started into his standard crowd-pleaser: Sinatra’s 'My Kind of Town.

False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

Sometimes death is even better than to confess a secret.

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

No sun cream or condoms, just in case you’re looking at the lady-boys. There’s plenty of AIDS lingering about and every STD you can imagine.

I came, I saw, I concurred...

I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon.

Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !

Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.Murder in the Dog Park

I ought to warn you, dear, he can get rather wild when he’s hungry

To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives have a dark side...

Kara knew all he recognized was T and A on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy puppeeter, so long as there were souls for sale he was ready to buy ..

You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel.

But if I die without trying again, I'm a coward. I don't mind having regrets about stuff I've done. It's the regrets about stuff I haven't done that bother me.

Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.

And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?

All the clues are there in front of us, hidden under a veil, we cannot get the clue by searching for, we have to search for the veil instead.

I am taken to the police station and they place me in an interrogation room. I am there for about thirty minutes before someone walks in.