Quotes from Kate Flora

Even in societies vastly different from America's, common facial expressions like happiness, fear, surprise, and shock are the same.

Getting a six-foot dead man into his SUV wasn't easy for a small woman in stilettos and a pencil skirt. He flopped like a dead fish and seemed to have more limbs than an octopus.

I have only the simplest shades in my house. I think a window treatment is something you should give a window when it's sick.

Goodall fingered his chin, looking puzzled, as though he'd recently had a beard and someone had taken it while he wasn't looking.

That friend

It was dangerous to think you'd seen it all. It tempted fate to throw something worse in your face.

In his pocket, his silenced phone vibrated like a forgotten pleasure device.

Doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs, tinkers, tailors, soldiers, spies - everyone was busier and more important than a mere homicide investigator. People did so hate to be bothered by sordid stuff like crime.

Burgess changed his shirt. Maura had left most of her lipstick and eyebrows on him as well ass her tears.

She liked it that he didn't play games. She was sick and a half of being condescended to.

Her sigh was like her soul flowing out.

I'd fallen asleep so soundly it felt like I'd dropped into a black hole. Now I had to crawl back out, feeling my way like some underground creature startled by the light.