Even though I began my career as an alchemist, I soon turned away from that practice and forged my own path. I uncovered my own secrets and kept them secret. That’s how I was able...

Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains.

It’s ‘Never forget who you work for.'” And as she voiced the words, Nikki felt a creeping unease. It wasn’t exactly shame, but it was close. For the first time it sounded hollow. Fake. Why?...

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

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...

She had an ass that could make any man sin.”~ Gunner Wilson

Generally he knew by instinct the likely length of an investigation, but on this occasion he did not: as he fought to get his breath he suddenly saw himself as others must see him, and...

The only reason you need me at all, John, is because Magick actually works. If it were all just smoke and mirrors and stage magic, if the world worked the way religion or science says...

The light clicks on, right above my head, drawing my eyes to it. The moment I look up, squinting, I know I’m in trouble. There isn’t even a guy leaning against the corner, trying to...

Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with ‘Are you stupid?’ and the conversation would still make sense.

Nick wouldn’t dream of going on a case without his beloved cat. After all, they had been together for over three hundred years.

about Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than you had them.

In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective.

It seems you can’t go anywhere today without seeing some popular culture rendition of Vampyres. I went into a bookstore a few weeks ago and there was an entire section devoted to Teenage Paranormal Romance....

The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop.Suffice it to say, I froze.

I only swing for one girl. But if she’s into a certain kind of kink, who am I to deny her such pleasantries?”~ Luke Wagner

It has often been said that the more unusual the murder the easier it is to solve, but this is a theory I don’t believe. Nothing is easy, nothing is simple, and you should think...

I finally get to use my Harry Potter business cards!

I’m very glad you asked me that, Mrs Rawlinson. The term `holistic’ refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. I do not concern myself...

Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It’s childish.

A strange enigma is man

There were men in their fifties, men who take a stab at fitness, men who try. They may not look young, but they still look viable. Lammers wasn’t one of those. Lammers was one of...

CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!

Yin and yang. Male and female. Life and death. The dualities that make us human. As though our lives play out on an immense balance scale—move one way, the scale tips to the left, but...

Becoming a fae leader? Not on my bucket list.

Have you checked your ass out lately? It’s pretty dang distracting, darling.” ~ Gunner Wilson

You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.

By about eight hundred years.

Of all the ways to murder someone, slowly, over the course of about 75 years or so, is the best way to not get caught. Nobody, not even Sherlock Holmes, would suspect a thing.

He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.

Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

The Land of Civilian was a dry bitter place where you sat in your car staring at drawn curtains and closed doors for hours on end, and where everything was a big, freaking secret.

Terrible accident; body parts was everywhere—-fingers, toes, wings, beaks. Ambulance people tried to scoop him all up, but apparently it ain’t so easy as you might think—telling a chicken from a Chinaman, I mean. Anyways,...

A species of cooperation, and a species of strife. We fight wars, and we also establish the rule of law to mete out justice to the criminals in our midst. Humans are both good and...

The instant Isabella Cortez left the safety of the FBI building, goose bumps skittered across her skin and her senses went on high alert.

I guess you’re going for the hard-ass Texas Ranger thing today” ~ Laney Briggs

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

Well, that could have gone better.

I may not carry a detective’s badge, but I’m certainly the highest ranking member of Albatross Harbor’s neighborhood watch program. And like tilapia, I know something smells fishy when I taste it. In my neighborhood,...

It is. We also eat hamburgers and spaghetti.

I love introverts. They don’t waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don’t trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.

The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves...

that was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity.

Rene Caron takes my breath away!

Possibly. But remember, Vampyres are not romantic. Vampyres are dead. They are walking reminders of tragedy. Loving one is necrophilia. And wanting to be one is the first step on the road to catastrophe.

Karo kann sehr gut schießen. Sie trifft nur nicht immer.

I think like a detective.

The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought.

Like the end of Terminator 2? Good question. If there’s even a single cell remaining, it can regrow my whole body. But even if there isn’t a single cell left, then an ancient spell I...

Just making the cement now, only takes five minutes.””I did it in four once,” Pauly whispered boastfully to Johnny, “but if I’m honest, I was never completely happy that it set properly.””Who was it for?””Big...