Quotes About Investigation

Monk guzzled the water and tossed the empty bottle over his shoulder.

Mostly South America and Mexico the last few years. The drug cartels like to dismember their enemies, throw them in a pit, and set them on fire. The authorities hire me to help identify the dead," Daniel said. Now Eve knew what he meant when he said that he'd slept in worse places than a cot at the Lost Hills station. "I also worked that plane crash in Texas and the apartment building fire in Oakland.

Someone ripped a baby from a mother's womb," Eve said. "Getting the monster who did that is worth all of our resources." She'd surprised herself by saying that, more by the vehemence behind it than the words themselves.

Besides, you're taking the lead on this investigation, whatever it turns out to be." "I am? Why?" "Because I'm retiring in a few weeks. My job until then is to sit on my ass, push paper, and offer you pearls of wisdom," he said. "And I don't want to get myself killed like all the soon-to-retire cops in the movies just to add some tragic depth to your character. I've done enough for you already.

Darrow was obviously struggling to create a story where there wasn't one yet. Eve didn't blame her for that. If Eve had her way, Darrow wouldn't have to wait long. Every corpse, even one that was just scattered bones for now, had a story. It was Eve's job to find it.

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

Sometimes you are suspicious because of something, and sometimes you are suspicious because of nothing. This incident began in the library, where I could find nothing good to read. This was suspicious.

Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.

Perhaps you are one of us too, investigating your life and thinking about the world, always feeling native to nowhere. We put on disguises sometimes, to pose as people we are not, to hide, or to blend in, or just to see what will happen, hoping that our secrets will never be found out.

being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone.

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

Her hair came first, a wild tangle as if several heads of hair were having a wrestling match, and the rest of her followed, frowning and tall. There are many mysteries I have never solved, and the hair of my chaperone is perhaps my most curious unsolved case.

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

As I'm sure you know, whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware... I recently looked in the refrigerator of one of my enemies and learned she was a vegetarian, or at least pretending to be one, or had a vegetarian visiting her for a few days.

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do, and the only thing I could think of was finding out what was going on in this town.

Questions show an inquisitive mind.

I have known people, after murders, to go whole days without eating.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Dr. Fitch is dead, sir.

The latest victim was the youngest yet:

We've got something," I said, starting down the stairs again. "We've got a killer at large in this goddamned building. As for Madison Tyler, we've got another dead end.

kills a cop, the net gets big and wide. That net

He's got good reason to worry," said Del Rio. "Whoever killed Shelby got in and out of the house with the skill of a Beverly Hills proctologist. I'm looking into contract killers. I've got a couple of leads. We're going to break this one, Jack.

The minute Bigs hired you, I knew you'd make trouble." "I'm a detective," I replied. "Trouble is my business.