It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The...

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

Crude. You’re crude, roomie.

A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington’s Adventures in Detection: 1)”Is this one of the more unusual cases of safe-breaking you’ve been asked to investigate, Mrs Hetherington?””Remember your private...

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

The reader is the final arbiter.

That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don’t ask me about the Front Office’s policies; I...

The Element of Surprise is their in every day,It’s when you wake up.

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.

When I speak of God, I mean that god who prevented man from putting forth his hand and taking also of the fruit of the tree of life that he might live forever; of that...

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children)So what does this movement consist of? Who are the movers and shakers? Well molesters are in it, of course....

I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I can’t remember seeing a newspaper without a rape or molestation charge in it...

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.

The Satanism Scare” (Ruben, 1994). And why do accounts like the ones given by the 37 ritually abused adults in the Young et al. (1991) study, and the 14 ritually abused families in the Kelly...

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has...

Locking everyone up is not the solution,’ she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. ‘It’s just the symptom of the problem. It’s the proof that we’re...

Obwohl diese afrikanischen Militärbanden oft nicht größer oder mächtiger sind als die organisierten kriminellen Banden in Asien oder Osteuropa, wird über ihre Aktivitäten in den Medien – sogar in den westlichen Medien – unter der...

Love Sex and CrimeNearly 100 Crimes are committed in the name of Love and only one is committed in the name of Sex.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

Crime begins with God. It will end with man, when he finds God again. Crime is everywhere, in all the fibres and roots of our being. Every minute of the day adds fresh crimes to...

The police called it choking, but I called it a two-handed neck hug. That’s how I knew she really loved me.

In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored.

We live in a world in which women are battered and are unable to flee from the men who beat them, although their door is theoretically standing wide open. One out of every four women...

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve....

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can’t stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can’t see clearly?

Terrorism will never cease in a country where the so-called leaders are criminals and terrorists in disguise.

Last summer, in London at least, the hoodie was transformed from a benign piece of leisurewear into a uniform for the disaffected, the angry, the malevolent. So much so that ‘hoodie’ was no longer a...

No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.

There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.

Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.

…Cleveland was the first war over the protection of children to be fought not in the courts, but in the media…Given that most of the hearings took place out of sight of the press, the...

It’s like this with us baby. We’re coppers and everybody hates our guts….nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat out of a guy, they say, and some shyster...

Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence, perhaps even contempt. But they’re mistaken, and that makes them furious....

He knew more about the death of Lula Landry than he had ever meant or wanted to know; the same would be true of virtually any sentient being in Britain. Bombarded with the story, you...

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

He couldn’t read her these days; it was as though she’d been taken away from him, and in her place some alien had dropped a figure that looked like Alice, but was a cheap imitation...

You can only rise so far by climbing on others’ shoulders, you know.

When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good became too wide and depressing to tolerate, I’d turn to my other great...

Technology is a queer thing; it brings you great gifts with one hand and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the...

The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the notion that two blacks make a white, and that when a wrong has...

18 rules for not getting caught. 1-17: don’t tell anybody. #18: not even your clone.

The hotel was guest-friendly with hourly rates and had enough room to swing a cat, if it were a small cat and you wanted to swing it.

There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are...

Anxiously, he touched the lump on his head again, then felt his injured leg, groaning. “The whole affair is a mystery to me,” he said. “Who would want to steal anything from me?” “Perhaps a...

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

Feeling – what authentic human fun!