Mystery Series Quotes

When you’re poor and hungry and frightened of failure, you often don’t have the luxury of high values, lofty goals, and social conscience. Funny how fear and poverty will acid-wash your value set, burn away all the flimflam and artifice and learned morality and leave you with nothing but the urgency of survival. - Dr. Dan Trix - Chasing the Horizon.

She would not have another man push her aside like some appetizer, there to wet his whistle only to be left once the main dish arrived.No more. She pushed her thumb into his throat a little harder.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.

J. Alexander Greenwood

Ah ha!' the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. ''The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!

There are a few rules in investigations, and one is to never cringe at the person’s appearance that you’re about to pump for info.

Ruth Bainbridge

The professor’s motive was in the grand scheme of things terribly petty ” Greenwood said. “"Pilate’s Cross" is inspired by the questions this terrible crime created but as a work of fiction it is set in a different place and time and has a more complex motive for the murders.

J. Alexander Greenwood

We're Killers On The Keyboard

Cyndi Williams Barnier

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

Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan)

Beth Fine

She is my friend, and there is nothing you can say or do that can stop me from helping her.