Detectives Quote by Jeffery Deaver

“Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.”

Jeffery Deaver

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“I realized finally what the problem was,” I told Maree. “It wasn’t him. It was my wife. She was treating him like a normal…

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“But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.”

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“Stanton clawed his way to the bedside table and managed to grab his knife. He jabbed it into Rhyme. Once, twice. But the only…

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“You’re sure it was Loving?” “Yes. That’s exactly the kind of strategy he’d choose. There’s no doubt it was him.” I was aware of…

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“Maree opened her eyes wide. “Wait, wait . . . I know you.” She regarded me with a frown. I must have blinked in surprise. Had we…

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The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

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“eager’ and ‘anxious’ aren’t the same, or how ‘disinterested’ doesn’t mean ‘uninterested.”

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The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the…

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“DuBois’s observations were back. She’d largely recovered from the Graham ignominy.”

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“Maree may have noted that I said “wife” and not “ex,” which imparted some information to her. She was smarter than the package suggested.…

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Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting…

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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

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This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an…

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The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind…

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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a…

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American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that…

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Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of…

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A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic…

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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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