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...

It’s only after you’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.–Chuck Palahniuk

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....

Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. When the time came, nothing would stop him.

Miss Lasqueti consumed mostly crime thrillers, which constantly seemed to disappoint her. I suspect that for her the world was more accidental than any book’s plot. Twice I saw her so irritated by a mystery...

Crime isn’t pretty, only fashionably dressed.

Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral.

Regress towards progress – Dr Wannamaker

Every man will tell you little boys should not play with dolls but ask any mother and they will tell you, every little boy has gone to sleep cuddled into one at one time in...

To write well is to have felt a tingle of joy in your being; to have left a little of your blood on the page’ B.J.Kibble, author of DRY RAIN, LEGION, CHASING THE WIND,and CRIES...

I’ve always said women are vicious creatures – Detective Zach Grimes

What was Dr. Mera’s motive for murder? I don’t need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives...

She had been lying there, facedown in the water long before the tide had turned at 3.04 that morning. Her eyes were staring into the river, her blonde hair first fanning out, then drawing back...

Whose Daddy’s Little Girl Now?

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

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

Bravery isn’t when you go looking for trouble; bravery is when trouble comes looking for you.

Sometimes death is even better than to confess a secret.

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

He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with his work, stopped writing for a period of years. When he came back...

Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.

You Englishmen,’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

No sun cream or condoms, just in case you’re looking at the lady-boys. There’s plenty of AIDS lingering about and every STD you can imagine.

Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.

How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies?

Only a few can survive and face reality without a vice.

Every time he studied this instrument, with its slender, gleaming steel rod that tapered down to such needle-like sharpness, he wondered why it was necessary to have things like this in the world. If it...