Quotes from Rick Mofina

This can't be real. It can't be. You just don't wake up to another day, go along living your life then—bang—without warning, without a chance to prepare, in a heartbeat, everything changes.

few days after Vryke's death, a lawyer arrived at the San Francisco medical examiner's office in the Hall of Justice. She was

praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan

there are always more than two sides to a story, that nobody is ever as bad as people think, and nobody is ever as good as people think.

his hardest cases, where parents, upstanding people, had reported children missing but were later proven to have lied to cover up abuse, an accidental death or a homicide. He had looked into the eyes of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles and friends as they lied, watched their tears, even believed that they were convinced in the truth of their own lies until the facts, the evidence, emerged and the incontrovertible truth was revealed.

Dad, she can't be dead. She's my mom. She can't be.

we cannot rule out the

standing in front of the jewelry store.

Light lost to the darkness here.

Oh, hello, Tom." No malice. Doris was not an interfering mother-in-law. She was always pleasant to him.

subway to Oakland

If a good man does nothing when confronted with a moral wrong, what is lost?

The anguish pulled Karen's broken heart down, blurring through the years of her life to when she was young and took her little sister, Cassie, swimming at the Monarda River. She was supposed to watch over Cassie, but Karen was crazy about a boy and intent on playing a game with him, and it had ultimately led to Cassie's death.

There was a cosmic breakdown between heaven and humanity on the table. As if some malevolent force had clawed from a dark world into this one.

and the award-winning author of several acclaimed thrillers. He's interviewed murderers face-to-face on death row; patrolled with the LAPD and the RCMP. His true crime articles have appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Reader's

system. The automatic

man was confessing to him.

Was he absolutely certain she about her? Yes.

Driving home after her first night course at San Francisco State University, Iris was adrift in the darkness. She rarely travelled this far south in the city.

All three cops stood there, reaching deep within themselves, ensuring that whatever moral substance they safeguarded in their most secret corners remained untouched as they looked upon the outrage.

Sydowski and his father had good seats at the Coliseum. Thirty rows up from first. But the game lacked zeal. Entering the eighth, with the A's up by seven over the Yankees, was not exciting baseball.

Oro en paz, fierro en guerra. "You know our jingle," Gonzales said. "Gold in peace. Iron in war.

Rick Mofina

Why should he care about the world? The world didn't give a damn about him.