Courses Quote by Emily Eden

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as…

— Gary Locke

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

— Donna Tartt

Oooh I like to read murder mystery. I like to know the killer isn't me.

— Erasure

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important…

— Rex Stout

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew…

— Karin Fossum

“There is nothing so bracing as planning a murder. I recommend it to the weak-willed and those with a leaky sense of self. It…

— Shelley Jackson

“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I…

— Donna Tartt

Traditional murder mysteries are interesting because they're ostensibly about a horrible thing - murder - but underneath that, they're about restoring order to a…

— Malinda Lo

The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.

— Charlie Pierce

“Murder is something you read about, listen to on a wireless, see at the pictures, discover in print every Sunday morning when you open…

— Molly Lefebure

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the…

— Stephen Sondheim