Quotes About Investigation

Breakfast should always come before sleuthing.

How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?" "You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth

Michael Connelly (The Drop, 2011)

A teenage girl, brutally murdered and left in a trash dumpster; a young man, killed in a firebombing attack; a soccer mom, shot in the living room of her home; vicious thugs whose job is to protect a suspected criminal. Just another week on rotation for LAPD detective Joel Jovanic...until he uncovers a connection between the disturbing series of vicious crimes and Annabelle Giordano, who is in the temporary custody of his soulmate, Claudia Rose.

He isn't the kind of doctor you'd call if you're sick. He is, however, the kind of doctor you'd call if you're dead.

if I were you, I wouldn't try and track her down." "Why not?" "Because when it comes to Dee, you're better off not knowing where she's going or what she's up to. You'll only have to lie to the authorities later.

[First line] "The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.

What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer.

I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.

Everywhere you go, people have recorded or captured events in real time on their mobile phones. It becomes one of the first questions you ask when you go in to investigate something.

Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.

Solving Criminal case with wasting time on Internet, And your Future Cases will Pending Untouched Till the End and you never realize that.

With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

Curiosity demands satisfaction.

Rebecca was not killed during a new moon," Mazur said as he checked his phone. "That was November 19.

Emilio] felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust.

Exposed to the world for what she was; numbed with worry and fear; trying to answer the question... The same question the police had thrown at her over and over seven years ago.....Where are the Children?

Pollock once paid a fortune for a Picasso drawing, then erased it in order to see how it was made.

How can we ever stop looking? How can we ever turn away?

I am not, by trade or character, a spotlight operator. I'm the goober with a flashlight, stumbling into corners and crannies, not looking for anything specific but knowing when I've found it.

You don't have to step on a body to carry the smells of death with you on your shoes. For reasons we have just seen, the soil around a corpse is sodden with the liquids of human decay. By analyzing the chemicals in this soil, people like Arpad can tell if a body has been moved from where it decayed. If the unique volatile fatty acids and compounds of human decay aren't there, the body didn't decompose there.

If you don't have a pair of cadaver shoes, you're not doing enough research.

If you don't have a pair of cadaver shoes, you're not doing enough research." In