California Quote by Martha Tucker

“She could assassinate streets with her eyes”

— Dionne Brand

“The local police was her brother Martin, the sheriff. Her father was the Assistant Chief of Police. The last thing she was going to…

— Elizabeth Garden

“It’s extremely difficult to kill a city! On”

— Geoffrey West

“At least this time, with this murder, she knew he had an alibi. At the time Cicely Towers was having her throat slashed, Roarke…

— J.D. Robb

“A gruesome death is a public event. Cops destroy privacy in order to build a concatenation.”

— S. A. David

“He’d died before she moved to Chicago, but she’d followed the story of his shooting with the same queasy horror as the killings of…

— Marcus Sakey

“Think of Area X as a murderer we’re trying to catch.” “Oh great, that’s just great, now we’ve got a detective on staff, too.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Murder could happen, she thought as she drove to Cop Central, to anyone, anywhere, anytime.”

— J.D. Robb

“It is to be feared that about a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionaire has been murdered; an…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Crime Beat: Stories of Cops and Killers”

— List-Series

“This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in my victims…

— Agatha Christie

“Man,ought to take care o his own business.don't you think, Mr. Mayor?”

— R. S. Belcher