Top 63 Mystery Series Quotes
#1. Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.
Deborah Harkness
#2. For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#3. The love of money can do wicked things to one's soul.
Jules Haigler
#4. The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.
J. Alexander Greenwood
#5. Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
Nancy Lynn Jarvis
#6. He was one of the few men who didn't aspire to be alpha as long as he was in on the hunt.
B.V. Lawson
#7. After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
Caroline Lawrence
#8. The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine,' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure about.
Richard Fliegel
#9. Don't wait for the right time to do what your heart craves. The right time may never come. In the end, there is nothing more dreadful than the doom of a half-lived life.
Yveta Germano
#10. I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.
Kellyn Roth
#11. P.I. Cassie Cruise--You don't have to like her, but you damn well better respect her
S.L. Ellis
#12. Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.
B.V. Lawson
#13. Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan)
Beth Fine
#14. Her thoughts went to Stefano Garini as if pulled by an elastic - whenever she didn't pay attention, they snapped back to him. [Carlina's attraction to Stefano]
Beate Boeker
#15. There was no mistaking her daughter's handwriting. And the words... "If you're reading this, I'm already dead.
Elizabeth Heiter
#17. Avid readers are the most authentic creatures on the face of the earth, and their hearts and minds are not for sale at any price. "Mysteries for the Inspired Traveler" Goodreads blog
Kopman-Owens
#19. His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.
Reginald Hill
#20. There should be a drama series about women trying to figure out their mystery leg bruises.
Kelly Oxford
#21. The M.E. dissected pieces of a corpse to tell a story, while Drayco tried to bring them back from the dead, jagged piece by jagged piece.
B.V. Lawson
#22. The sliver of sun turned water crystals among the coal-colored clouds into the halo of a sundog.
B.V. Lawson
#23. We don't fall in love with a woman because of her good character.
John Dickson Carr
#25. Ah ha!' the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. 'The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!
Clare Havens
#26. The smell of beer surrounded him in a cloud as if he'd been doused in Eau de Frat Boy cologne.
B.V. Lawson
#27. The blight of office cubes housing lawyers and lobbyists had popped up like chokeweeds in the manicured lawn of the family homestead.
B.V. Lawson
#28. What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
David Malouf
#29. I really enjoyed hearing the likesand dislikesof my readers at book clubs as well as meeting new fans at the book signing at The Bookworm in Omaha " he said. "The book clubs have overwhelmingly asked me to hurry up on writing the sequel.
J. Alexander Greenwood
#30. He wore his personality like a suit that was too tight.
B.V. Lawson
#31. What makes a show good for me, personally, is a mystery that just doesn't quit. I want to know why. Why did this happen? Why is this phenomenon occurring? Why did that person do that? A series is really good to me that takes its time in answering those questions.
Mark Pellegrino
#32. Reacher was the kind of guy who solved all problems as permanently as possible.
Diane Capri
#33. So it's fate then?" I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, "Us being together?"
"Absolutely," Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.
Who was I to argue with Fate?
E.J. Stevens
#34. Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.
Bridget Allison
#35. A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.
Gilbert N. Lewis
#36. They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.
Bruce Boxleitner
#37. This is the right time
They are the right people
Will it be enough for mankind?
From "The Rishis: Book of Secrets.
Robert Delgado
#38. I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.
Patrick Rothfuss
#39. Ah, the bliss of Mahotsava!
What joy it brings to every heart!
What a rare and precious chance
To share all knowledge with the wise,
And bless and love all peoples of the Earth!"
- Book of Secrets I, 1
Robert Delgado
#40. There are a few rules in investigations, and one is to never cringe at the person's appearance that you're about to pump for info.
Ruth Bainbridge
#41. Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.
E.J. Stevens
#44. At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.
Dana Stabenow
#45. She would not have another man push her aside like some appetizer, there to wet his whistle only to be left once the main dish arrived.
No more. She pushed her thumb into his throat a little harder.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#46. The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
Laurie Stevens
#47. The 'Scream' series is unique in that it's an ongoing murder mystery, even though it's a different killer, so if you know who that killer is, then half of the fun of the movie is gone.
Wes Craven
#48. After only a few moments in her presence, he found himself wondering what dragon he might slay for her.
Regina Scott
#49. Indignation is often the best defense.
Diane Capri
#50. In the meantime, without realising it, I had learned a valuable lesson - in the need for an author to have a total belief in their characters if they are to come alive!
Robin Rowles
#51. The Land of Civilian was a dry bitter place where you sat in your car staring at drawn curtains and closed doors for hours on end, and where everything was a big, freaking secret.
Lily Gardner
#52. She is my friend, and there is nothing you can say or do that can stop me from helping her.
Peter G. Nogel
#53. Her killer wrote a note on that stationary."
"A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?
J.D. Robb
#54. Both men were pictures of the kind of grief that cauterizes open wounds in memory and turns them into black scars.
B.V. Lawson
#56. He was a Super Politician, defender of untruths, injustice and the American power-play.
B.V. Lawson
#58. Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.
E.J. Stevens
#59. He launched into the color-tsunami of Prokofiev's fourth piano sonata. It soon carried him onto a distant shore where the only thing broken was the silence.
B.V. Lawson
#60. No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors.
Diane Capri
#61. The professor's motive was in the grand scheme of things terribly petty " Greenwood said. ""Pilate's Cross" is inspired by the questions this terrible crime created but as a work of fiction it is set in a different place and time and has a more complex motive for the murders.
J. Alexander Greenwood
#62. With so many people lulled into believing everything they found on the Web, he expected computer shrines to pop up in homes soon. Worship the new Oracle of Dell-phi.
B.V. Lawson
#63. Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.
Frances Brody
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