Quotes about Crime fiction

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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 w — Holly Hood, Heart of Gypsies
My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear (“Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!”) — Ed Lynskey, The Blue Cheer
Man-eaters are finally shot dead. — Mahendra Jakhar, The Butcher of Benares
Last time I was on the welcome Wagon, I was holding some guy by the balls for 15 minutes while the inspector explained w — Jim McGrath, A Death in Winter: 1963
Eventually everyone dies, but death, in various forms and ways, still comes as a shock. Then they throw dirt in your fac — Mahendra Jakhar
He could sense in her the same spirit that ran in his veins. They were people with independent minds. They were not cler — Mahendra Jakhar, The Butcher of Benares
Policemen are often confronted with situations which baffle them at first. A certain crime scene may seem meaningless, b — Mahendra Jakhar, The Butcher of Benares
Mee and Ow sat in the shade of a mango tree and were doing their make-up. Both of them wore gloves that reached all the — Tom Vater
I came, I saw, I concurred... — Darren E. Laws, Turtle Island
I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridge — Catherine Astolfo
The Professor is coming... — M.K. Hopkins
You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski — Laurie Stevens, The Dark Before Dawn
The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if the — Mike Bartos, BASH
I wake and in those first fuddled moments forget you’re not here. I must have been dreaming about you – a tense, erotic — A.J. Waines, Dark Place to Hide
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. — John D. MacDonald, Darker Than Amber
Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they — Gosho Aoyama
When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts i — James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss
When you’retwenty-one, life is a roadmap.It’s only when you get to betwenty-five or so that youbegin to suspect you’ve b — Stephen King, Joyland
But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us. — Stephen King, Joyland
She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carr — Stephen King, Joyland