Female Sleuth Quotes

My motto? Don’t trust someone who is just as cagey as yourself. What kind of detective are you?” “A lousy one and proud of it. I write, remember?” She looked down at her hand & laughed. “Berretta doesn’t make lighters.” Why I was a writer! My life revolved around fiction. I could make something upShe looked down at her hand & laughed. “Berretta doesn’t make lighters.” So they're not Tolstoy, they're a little shorter...Okay, okay a lot. Go ahead, read my mystery series anyway. A detective has their boundaries especially me. So mine shifted occasionally...okay a lot “Beat it, Buster. My temper and this mace have a hair trigger.”“Interference could be lethal.” I got right up in his face, hissing, “Don’t push me, I’m hormonal.”I'm not really a lousy detective, just rough around the edges.

~ Peggy A. Edelheit

My name is Jane Delaney and I do things my paying customers can’t do, don’t want to do, don’t want to be seen doing, can’t bring themselves to do, and/or don’t want it to be known they’d paid someone to do. To dead people.

~ Pamela Burford

When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.

~ Adrianne Lee

When you see me in a scarf you may think “Oh, she went to some trouble there.” But no, when I wear a scarf it means this grey blouse was unwrinkled and those mocha pants make my behind look fine and voila I have a vivid grey and brown silk scarf which means I have transformed self from bone lazy to coordinated accessory maven.(Maid in Waiting publish date June 2014)

~ Bridget Allison

That could be a very sexy story.

~ Lyndee Walker

But that’s the thing about dead people: they can’t warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger.

~ Lyndee Walker