Crime Fiction Quotes

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

~ Lauren Bradshaw

Surprised huh, thought you had me back in prison didn’t you? To answer your question what keeps me alive is my drive, my drive to kill you! I have nothing, but hate for you and your family. It will be my pleasure taking you out. I don’t care about power, plutonium or even being rich. None of that matters to me. I only care about taking you out. Even if I die I want to be the one who is called the killer of Angel Medina! There’s no where for you to go. Now we will truly see who is better! Come on put up you hands and prepare for your final battle of your life! - Orlando from Framed: The Second Book of the Thousand Years War

~ Angel Ramon Medina

It’s getting a little chilly in here! Why don’t we sit by the fireplace and I’ll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!

~ Angel Ramon Medina

They say it's always darkest before the dawn and it was pitch black by the time I arrived at the Marriott. However I still had a few bullets left for my deadbeat uncle that tried to stab me in the back.

~ Angel Ramon Medina

Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.

~ R.w. Rivers

I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head.” - Stephanie Carovella

~ Nina D'angelo

My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.

~ Mel Healy

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

~ Mark M. Derobertis

For one… If you shoot me and your boss realizes it was without good reason, you’ll have fucked up your trial period. And trust me; I know you’re still in it.” Ian pulled open a drawer in a small brown cabinet.“Secondly, it could end very badly for me and I’d rather prevent that. Getting shot is not on my list of things to do today.” He wrapped his hand around the steel grip of his own weapon and removed it from the drawer.“And last but not least, if you plan to shoot me… Well, it’ll be a matter of which of us is quicker and has better aim.” A pleasant smile crossed his features and he casually waved the gun from side to side. “Do you want to risk it?

~ Natasha Mcneely

As I left his office he continued his telephone conversation, and as Amanda had declared, she was in fact waiting for me. “So, Amanda, what is it now? Who is it you want to fix me up with today?” “Well actually, I don’t have any new candidates in my mind just yet. I actually need some decorating advice.  I want to tackle my living room den. It has been about three years since it has had a lift. It needs a new theme, and I would like your opinion of what direction I should consider . . . modern contemporary or vintage?” “Well, what does your husband think, or does he have a vote?” “Well, on paper, yes, but between us women . . . absolutely not.

~ Hazel Cartwright

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands.

~ Jim Thompson

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.

~ Jim Thompson

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

~ Rhys Chamberlain

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...

~ David Videcette

I let my gaze travel out the picture window. Unlike at my old doublewide trailer perched on the fringe of a played out quarry, here I owned a real yard with real grass that screamed for mowing each Monday a.m. I sat at the kitchen table, cooling off from just having finished this week's job. Yes, here in 2005, I was a full-fledged suburbanite, but I'd been called worse.

~ Ed Lynskey

Quote taken from Chapter 1: That's the idea. Listen, Frank, this one is different. She's a keeper. He let that part gel in me. Get your head screwed on straight and move to Richmond. You hate it living in Pelham.

~ Ed Lynskey

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

~ Vish Dhamija

Whose Daddy's Little Girl Now?

~ Lauren Bradshaw

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

~ Tom Greer

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

~ Jennifer Lane

Al... You ever kill anybody? In the United States? Because I know you mean it and everything, but I know these guys better than I know you. They're soldiers, that's all. No questions, no time to ask, no talk. Cops are worse, and less predictable. When you pull a gun, you've gotta be ready to kill somebody, and I'm telling you it's better to run.

~ Phillip Rock

False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

~ Chris Womersley

In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner of the living room and now he had a phone in his hand on which he could pretend to throw a scrunched-up piece of paper into a waste bin. The world had waited a long time for that.

~ Kate Atkinson

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

~ Jess C. Scott

I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

~ William Landay

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

~ Alexa Grace

Today, women have as much of a place as protagonists and antagonist as men.

~ Jp Wolfe

Angel you may have lucked out this time, but just remember I’m going to be on your ass until I get my revenge. I promise you this will not be the last time you will see me! You’re a dead man Medina, maybe not now but soon! - Orlando to Angel under the crumbling furnace in the hotel.

~ Angel Ramon Medina

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

~ Tami Hoag

I’ve sometimes regretted the women I’ve been.There have been so many: daughter, sister, cop, tough broad, several kinds of whore, jilted lover, ideal wife, heroine, killer.I’ll provide the truth of them all, inasmuch as I’m capable of telling the truth.Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, almost an addiction, that’s hard to break even with the people closest to you, out of the business.They say never trust a woman who tells you her age; if she can’t keep that secret, she can’t keep yours.I’m fifty-nine.

~ Becky Masterman

Sometimes death is even better than to confess a secret.

~ Alper Kaya

Reaching for the basket of sex accoutrements, she took a thin, red tube, squeezed some clear gel onto her fingertips and returned to fondle his balls. “What’s that?” he asked, feeling a warm, tingling sensation around his genitals.“You not try before?” She smiled saucily.He shook his head.“…Special for you.

~ Simon Palmer

Her aunt and uncle worked fifteen hours a day in their desperate attempt to keep the corner shop in profit, and their Sundays were marked by exhaustion. The moral code by which they lived was that of cleanliness, respectability and prudence. Religion was for those who had the time for it, a middle-class indulgence.

~ P.d. James

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

~ Jess C. Scott

Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.

~ Jess C. Scott

Kara knew je only recognised t and a on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy pupeeter

~ Saira Viola

This wasn't the last of it. Now that Finia was carrying his baby, they would be together forever, whether she liked it or not.

~ Yawatta Hosby

How dare she not give in to his vulnerability. There was only so much rejection he could take.

~ Yawatta Hosby

Finia glanced towards her bedroom, wishing the darkness would swallow her whole.

~ Yawatta Hosby

The battle rages everyday. In the Arena of God

~ Brian Oldham