Baltimore Quote by Laura Lippman

“Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.”

— David Simon

“He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying.…

— William Kent Krueger

“What’s news?” She put the magazine down and looked at me. “Philip K. Dick is dead.” “Who’s that?” I asked.”

— Adrian McKinty

“He cleared his throat. “One good thing about the range, Starling, is there’s no politics out there.” “No?” “You were right to secure that…

— Thomas Harris

“They trudged through a deep snowdrift. Then, as if blocked by some invisible force field, they stopped. John had seen a lot of crime…

— Linda Castillo

“We might be a bit slow on some things down in the South, but we know murder.”

— Cynthia Eden

“It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law.”

— Don DeLillo

“I’ve worked murders for fifteen years, and some of the places you end up… I don’t know, you’re standing over bodies in these holes,…

— Tim Weaver

Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.

— Josh Lanyon

“If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?”

— David Simon

“Do you mean to tell me, Superintendent, that this is one of those damned cases you get in detective stories where a man is…

— Agatha Christie

“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”

— Robert Galbraith