Quotes About Investigation

We knew who would want him found, Dr Croix, but who wants him to remain buried?

Don't you generate theories, based on probability, and then eliminate them as facts come in? Isn't that how you find killers?" "Very true. But we also have to consider emotions. How we feel about things influences how we see them.

If the first victim of war was the truth, some of the first victims of a murder investigation were people's lies.

The forensics officer bagged both brushes. For DNA testing.

precision and clarity where the police

Armand Gamache found murderers by following the trail of rancid emotions. Beside

Looking around he realised how much he liked this place and these people. Too bad one of them was a murderer.

Homes, Gamache knew, were a self-portrait. A person's choice of color, furnishing, pictures. Every touch revealed the individual. God, or the Devil, was in the details. And so was the human. Was it dirty, messy, obsessively clean? Were the decorations chosen to impress, or were they a hodgepodge of personal history? Was the space cluttered or clear? He felt a thrill every time he entered a home during an investigation.

Besides, while Gamache wanted very much to solve the crime, he didn't want to lose his soul in the process. He suspected there were enough lost souls already.

Only while on a murder case did he drink fast-food coffee. It was so associated in his mind with the teamwork, the long hours, the standing in cold, damp fields, that his heart raced every time he smelt industrial coffee and wet cardboard.

Years ago, before the internet and electronic ways to investigate intellectual property thefts, publishers would put traps into books. Fictitious entries in reference books, to catch copyright thieves. Lillian Virginia Mountweazel is the most famous.

She leaned in closer and saw there was a sticker attached to the mirror. On it was written, 'You're looking at the problem.' Nichol immediately began searching the area behind her, the area reflected in the mirror, because the problem was there.

The dead woman's name is Jane Neal,' Gamache knew it was a false kindness to cushion a blow like this.

Florida and figure it out.

They looked at each other, and then, in unison, all three said, "Tell me what you know.

He'd seen Gamache go into homes, warehouses, forests where they knew heavily

Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.

that pure science searches for the truth without worrying about its practical application,

Until proven innocent, I regard all "gardenias" as I do footprints of the Snowman, engines that run on vacuum energy, or good wines from Savoie.

All questions can be answered, if one is prepared to take the trouble to find out what they are.

In breathing I am an object of the air, the air the subject; but when I make the air an object of thought, of investigation, when I analyse it, I reverse the relation - I make myself the subject, the air an object.

Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important.

People are never who you think they are, that it was necessary to get a complete background check on a person before you made any promises.

Lacy took the box she'd brought up from the basement and placed each item inside. Here was the crime scene: look at what was left behind and try to re-create the boy.