At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction – it fascinated rather than repelled.

Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

The only way Magick ever has power is when its secrets are truly secret. Once too many people know how it works, then it doesn’t work anymore.

I had been a happy normal wife and mother in Orange County until ten years ago, when I was attacked by an evil vampire… and turned into one myself. It’s made my life since gross...

I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over...

All I need are some fava beans and a nice Chianti!” he said as he slurped.

Simon’s brain tried to comprehend the situation. ‘Was an international supermodel really holding Doc Gutson, leader of the infamous Bloodworth Gang, captive?

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we’re all deductive geniuses.

He was wearing a gleaming cream-coloured linen suit, and a Panama hat. The weirdest thing about this was that he was not the most outlandish-looking person in the room by a long way. Not that...

It often seems to me that’s all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again.”Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive...

It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.

In the nineteenth century, The Romantics viewed Nature as benign, a glowing reflection of God’s grace. Now we know better. Nature is brutal and, if it is feminine, she’s not the kind of woman you...