Quotes About Val McDermid

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

Admittedly, they [(places in novels)] didn't all have such ridiculous names as the ones in the Piddle Valley where her father's group of parishes was centered. It would have been hard to make credible a romantic fiction set in Farleigh Piddle, Middle Piddle, Nether Piddle and Piddle Dummer.

junction at the top of the stairs. She gave a curious glance down General Tilney's corridor, but she

The bodies of two murdered women have been found this week. For the record, I didn't kill either of them.

You're a very unusual man, Mark,? she'd said. ?That's nice of you to say so,? he said. You have no idea.

evenings before he moved away.' Wells's eyes kept flickering away from the QC to the prisoner. He was clearly uncomfortable

He was about to pursue a course of action that would be as popular with his Chief Constable as a priest in an Orange Lodge.

That what I have is not women's intuition but a finely honed copper's instinct for when things aren't right.

macerating what was left of the organs, 'liver, a portion of the heart, a certain

That'd be me, ma'am.' Tony winced. She hated that form of address and despised officers like DSI Henderson who cleaved to it as a marker of respect. 'It's old-fashioned misogyny

You know, I've often wondered. It's pretty clear what they were up to in Sodom, but what do you suppose the sin of Gomorrah was?' Carol asked.

You've always been handy with a knife, Mother