Quotes from Peter Lovesey

she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That's how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane.

I wonder if we're dealing with an amateur," she said. "Who keeps a revolver in his sock drawer? This isn't America.

hunches are mostly your brain telling you what you want to hear.

Like most of us, he had a large blind spot about his own faults.

drawing pad. He withdrew it and

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