Cozy-mystery Quote by Judy Alter

“Taylor motioned to Baldwin to go right, then took two steps closer to the nurses’ station. Her primordial senses kicked in; she smelled the…

— J.T. Ellison

“Claire knew full well from the videos that there were things a man could do to a woman that didn't kill her, but made…

— Karin Slaughter

“I didn't tell her about the free-for-alls on the school yard, muggings on the bus. A girl burned a cigarette hole in the back…

— Janet Fitch

“Clairey tasted the bile rising up in her throat, could smell the pathetic fear she was giving off, and they were as familiar to…

— Tracy Winegar

“  Mary fought a savage impulse to slam the door on the couple. But they were too interesting to ignore in the circumstances of…

— Susan Rowland

“They parked and entered the hospital through the emergency room. Taylor shuddered briefly as a woman on a gurney was rushed past. She’d been…

— J.T. Ellison

“Somehow she’d ended up in bed with the man mothers warn their daughters to stay away from. The kind of man fathers go after…

— Tessa Bailey

“Bakersville was never going to be the same. She'd been to other small towns where the residents all thought serial killers looked like monsters,…

— Elizabeth Heiter

“She’d decided a stranger had walked into the community and violated it, sliced into her world, taken her child away from her. Too much…

— Amanda Kyle Williams

“You mean all the dead women looked like Mr. Hauptman’s ex-wife? That’s . . . that’s right out of a profiler’s book.” Jenny snorted her coffee, wiped…

— Patricia Briggs

“Can you tell me what happened?" Her lips thinned as she shook her head. "'Tis not a happy tale." "You have me reading a…

— Jenny B. Jones

“Yes, she, Claire Parks, who by all rights should have been dead these many years, her bleached bones rotting in the cold ground, was…

— Lisa Marie Rice