‘The Big Sleep’ would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart’s relation to the crime.

Strength and success – they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in...

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

An act of terrorismis not an ideology,nor religion.It is the lack of hope,of opportunityand of love.When there is no recourse,no other waythere is only insurrection.Understanding, compassionand respect for all lifeis what will save us all.

All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.

Jesus honey, your husband ain’t dead, he’s in hiding.” He growled, watching her visibly flinch. – Jase Devlin

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Just calm down and think, sir. Think. Where is your wife?

In fact, until the last moments of his life, until the last seconds as he gasped for breath, he never realised how much he wanted to live. But, at that point, death was inevitable and...

Really, some cases shouldn’t even smell the court room. Screw Habaeus Corpus, lock up the criminal and have the keys thrown away.

History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.

If you want a better answer, krasivyy, ask a better question. – Koldan Vasin

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No...

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase “the good old days” has...

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime – you’d know at once.

Do we really mean it when we say ‘in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us part or do we add a silent clause, ‘unless you shame me or...

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed...

Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: ‘I must stop him before he stops me.’ In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.

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.

He’s prowling back and forth like a lion with distemper now. There’s a shiny streak down one side of his face. “I shouldn’t have let her go ahead – I ought to be hung! Something’s...

Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.

Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art

The Question is actually the answer

It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.

Everywhere on our planet one hand greases another. Often it’s done with a bloated face, wearing a serpent’s smile. M.Sullivan

I thought part of the idea of having therapy was putting one in touch with his or her feelings. And don’t give me all that about transference, and counter-transference and all that. I know what...

We have a hostage to pay ransom for in the morning so we can use him as ransom when we meet other kidnappers in the afternoon.

As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose premeditated, sadistic and organised abuse by their parents, relatives and other caregivers such...

I don’t really consider any of my novels ‘crime’ novels.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is.

Behind every crime lies an insult

Be careful what you say…you might end up in my next book!

I refer to what is called mysterium iniquitatis, meaning, as I see it, that a crime in the final analysis remains inexplicable inasmuch as it cannot be fully traced back to biological, psychological and/or sociological...

His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.

When a beautiful blonde asks, you don’t say no.

But I will tell you what I say to my children: ‘Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that...

In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases which appeared in the public domain, memory itself was always a false trail...

Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the damned lawyers help them do it. They’re all sticking two fingers up at...

I don’t need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Micro: When his mind detached from his body he saw the murderer stab him repeatedly. Later, he told the detective – who retired. He blamed stress.

My head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start,So if I’m treated like a criminal I might as well play the part.(attrib: E. Tancarville)

It’s not like they can take anything from me,’ he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. ‘Ain’t got nothing to give. Nothin’ but time, that is. And I been doin’ time my...

All day we’ve witnessed each other’s crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?

A ignor ncia é a mãe de todos os crimes, porque um crime é, antes de mais, uma falta de raciocínio.

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

How easy would it be to let the words uncurl from my tongue and glide slowly into the space between us? Let them light up the room in bright-orange neon: Here’s your answer! Here’s what...