Babe! Ranger shouted from the bathroom. Come get your grandmother.
Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?
Are you telling me you think Ranger's a superhero?'Think about it. We don't know where he lives. We don't know anything about him.'Superheroes are make-believe.'Oh yeah?' Lula said. 'What about God?
And Larry Burlew was a slug. She’d join the Foreign Legion before she’d marry Larry Burlew.
And I was careful to balance out my meal with something from different major food groups. I got fried protein, tasty carbohydrates, and gravy. Gravy isn’t a food group. Say what?
And Grandma spooned in some beans. We need one of them psychics, Grandma said. I saw on television where you can call them up, and they know everything. They find dead people all the time. I saw a cou...
Am I to assume you would rather not have us as clients? Let me think about that for a nanosecond, Dickie said. Yes! Last time you were in my office you tried to kill me. That's an exaggeration. Maim y...
Almost everything on Craigslist paid more than I was making, but my qualifications were sketchy. I had a college degree in liberal arts. That and a dollar could get me a soda.
All us good citizens in Jersey got attitude. We got pride. We got brass balls the size of watermelons. We got rude hand gestures and loaded guns... most of us. It's not like we're a pushover state lik...
Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're like that catfish with lungs. Take us out of our environment and...
About that proposal, cupcake...Morelli
A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M.E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling at the edge of the lot. I’d stayed close to the back door, and one of the Rangema...
A light rain had started to fall. He pulled my jacket hood up and tucked my hair in. His finger traced a line at my temple, our eyes met, and for a terrifying moment I thought he might kiss me. The mo...
A hollowed-out volcano is every super-villain’s dream lair. It’s all about location, location, location. Riley
A few years back, a con to trick
Rule three, never underestimate nosy neighbors. Mrs. Rupp called and wanted to know why you were standing in the alley, looking into her windows, and she was wondering if she should call the police. I...
Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff? - Aunt Edna
You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.--A good woman could do that.--She'd have to be armed and dangerous.
Through no fault of his own was a victim of an economy in the toilet. Joe used to make six figures a year in a corporate position commanding a crew that installed high-end security systems in Malibu m...
[Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love[Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking you had it, or you talked yourself into thinking you didn't nee...