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Buddy ran down the road, turned into another street, and vanished as if he had never been there, like another ghost from New Orleans's past.
— Hunter Murphy
I know what happened. I used my inTWINition
— Michael Houbrick
Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.
— Gregory McDonald
I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All.
— Rachel Brady
I am who I am and always shall be.
— Laura Elizabeth
Before man can explore outer space he should first learn to explore the Inner Space of his mind.
— Merlin Fraser
I don't know who you are," she thought, "but whoever you are, you're one hell of a player.
— Jeffrey Eaton
Rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
— Patricia Cornwell
The next time you come to the Cookie Jar, the coffee's on me. You could probably bottle that stuff of yours and sell it for rat poison.
— Joanne Fluke
...and then a murder mystery will occur.
— Natsuki Takaya
Before I can give myself to another I first must give me to myself. Once I know the value of self, I then can allow another to share in my wealth.
— Elizabeth Cook-Howard
Then he would have access to him. Then he could silence him forever.
— Labake Akinyosoye
Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
— Rajib Mukherjee
Deader than four o'clock.
— Hunter Murphy
The morning sun in New Orleans felt like it was trying to make a point, convincing the old world to believe something new.
— Hunter Murphy
Some ghosts should remain good and buried, Niece.
— Kerri Maniscalco
The years pass so quickly now that I can't keep my mental image of myself up to date. [Mature Dotsy deals with her age]
— Maria Hudgins
People who go to jail breed people who go to jail.
— Andrew Barrett
I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the same again. I wouldn't. Okay?
— Andrew Barrett
Access to the public library should be a basic human right.
— Kaitlyn Dunnett
If anyone was going to get themselves murdered to guarantee they would remain the center of attention, it would be him.
— Seanan McGuire
If you've lost, you've lost.
— Agatha Christie
I have read all of James Patterson's Books except for the last 5.I have over 80 of his books.
— Bridget Of Sweden
No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.
— Keith Houghton
I've been to livelier funerals," grumbled Herb.
— Leslie Meier
I'm beginning to wish I'd had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague.
— Steve Robinson
If you don't like the path your life has taken, choose another.
— Robert G. DeMers
It's a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills.
— Leslie Meier
I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.
— Jeannie Walker
What is a man's soul made of that a woman's is not?
— Kerri Maniscalco
Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?
— Vincent H. O'Neil
Always foster and grow that unquenchable curiosity of yours." I smiled. That was a promise I fully intended to keep.
— Kerri Maniscalco
The two words expressed volumes.
— Agatha Christie
Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!
— Thomas K. Matthews
The only way he could truly stick out in New Orleans was if he were walking down the street on fire.
— Hunter Murphy
Why didn't they ask the Evans?
— Agatha Christie
I talked with the admiral's staff. Military personnel are the worst, no disrespect intended. They clam up tighter than a bullfrog's ass.
— Feather Stone
Henry was now very annoyed; he had dug himself into a hole so deep that they didn't make a rope long enough.
— Andrew Barrett
I see. Because I'm not hideous, not a drunkard, and appear to bathe regularly, you picked me. How you flatter me.
— Chris Karlsen
I am not much of a mind to touch
— Stacey Jay
It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.
— Agatha Christie
The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters — R.J. Peters
- RJPeters — R.J. Peters
I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.
— Nike N. Chillemi
Lucy had no complaints about her dinner. Anything was fine with her as long as she didn't have to cook it.
— Leslie Meier
There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion
— George Bernard Shaw
Well, it's an anomaly! He must have received the wrong dosage. That's what happens when you put these matters in the hands of morons.
— Wodke Hawkinson
Lies can be expensive to maintain, Alexa. And I'm sure we haven't seen one percent of the price that the lies in this case ultimately will exact.
— Theodore Jerome Cohen
There are still a lotta nice Sicilian boys in New Orleans. (A nonna's advice to a zitella.)
— Traci Andrighetti
If looks could kill, she'd be a dead woman.
— Leslie Meier
I'm suddenly not hungry," Shane, said, his face ashen. "Noah, you go get the note. Be careful not to touch anything else. Don't step in the blood.
— Andrea Heltsley
Understanding anyone begins with the person's family history and the culture he or she is a part of.
— Pat Brown
My heart is an empty refrigerator.
— J.T. Lawrence
Look to the past to see what the future holds.
— Celia Conrad
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
— Alfred Hitchcock
Diamonds were everything I hoped to be; beautiful, yet containing unimaginable strength.
— Kerri Maniscalco
I am honored and humbled by the fine reviews my new book "Why We Lover Serial Killers" is receiving.
— Scott A. Bonn
Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.
— Jeannie Walker
Their minds were crying out to be set free, but they refused to unbind them.
— Kerri Maniscalco
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
— Eleanor Catton
But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.
— Agatha Christie
We're Killers On The Keyboard
— Cyndi Williams Barnier
I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty.
— Rachel Brady
Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.
— Vincent H. O'Neil
The hole where my heart had finally grown back after the loss of my parents was returning because of the very person who had filled the void
— Cassandra Giovanni
She was murdered fifty years ago, right here in Savannah. They found her body floating in the river.
— Lindsay Marie Miller
It's never too late to achieve your dreams
— A.E. Taylor
Carlina with her cat-like eyes who didn't fit into any category he knew. (Commissario Garini's difficulty with his prime suspect.)
— Beate Boeker
I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
— Stephen Sondheim
Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.
— Travis Berketa
The historian in me love to uncover things, and the mother in me hates to be lied to...[Why Dotsy investigates murder]
— Maria Hudgins
a Sicilian grandma is a formidable opponent
— Traci Andrighetti
It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then.
— Josephine Tey
The sheriff peered over his eyeglasses and said, Your son is a suspect in the murder.
— Jeannie Walker
Things are often exactly what they seem---horrifying or distasteful, even repugnant and disgusting.
— Norman Giddan
They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.
— Cassandra Giovanni
My notebook was filled with images of things a lady had no business being fascinated by, yet I couldn't control my curiosity.
— Kerri Maniscalco
'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
— Jason Aaron
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
The lady in the liquor store sold me a fifth of whiskey and the landlord's name without taking her eyes off the book she was reading.
— Andrew Cotto
It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality ... We've only one life to live.
— Agatha Christie
No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
— Ry Cooder
Never call your office while you're on vacation. That's always been one of my hard and fast rules.
— William Manchee
There were times that Nathan felt the world would be better off if he were dead. It seemed to him that it would be penance for his sins.
— Belinda G. Buchanan