Tell me, Mrs. Moon, will your need for sustenance trouble you on this excursion? How often do you need to feed?” I couldn’t tell whether his interest was scientific, or whether he was afraid I...

Investigation was like a series of job interviews. Getting the door slammed in your face at every attempt wasn’t the exciting life of the detective portrayed on film or television.

Al… You ever kill anybody? In the United States? Because I know you mean it and everything, but I know these guys better than I know you. They’re soldiers, that’s all. No questions, no time...

Did I hurt it?” But she didn’t need an answer, as it pulled itself up from the snow and brushed itself off.

A Dick and Jane story written in blood and battered bone.See Spot.See Spot run.See Spot run from a gaping chest wound.Run Spot run.See Detective smear Spot into a baggy for DNA testing.

It was always the same for her when she arrived to meet the body. After she unbuckled her seat belt, after she pulled a stick pen from the rubber band on the sun visor, after...

It’s been a while since I’ve had sex. I figured it was just like riding a bike, the only difference is that after a while, the bike doesn’t turn you over and ride you.

All the clues are there in front of us,hidden under a veil,we cannot get the clue by searching for,we have to search for the veil instead.

The criminal mind is perverted and convoluted but almost invariably unimaginative,’he said as Molly came out in a fluster

you were attacked by cement monkeys?

That’s the last thing we need. Zombys in a Vampyre story. Twilight of the Living Dead. Ugh!

I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned.”Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I’d say those words with a straight face…

Val had a horrific image of Lisa peering through a magnifying glass like a grotesquely teenybopper version of Nancy Drew — in jeggings.

Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery.