You don’t listen. I always listen, Ranger said. I don’t always agree. I have a problem right now that I can’t seem to solve by myself. I need you to help me find my daughter. And there’s an even bigge...
You got no control.''Excuse me?' my mother said. 'No control? I am the queen of control. Look at this family. I have a daughter in Disney World with Oogily-Woogily Smoochikins. I have a granddaughter...
You need a real gun, Lula said. I don’t need a real gun. I’m not shooting anyone. Suppose they shoot at you first? I wave my arms in the air, scream like a girl, and run away as fast as I can.
You're working with a guy named Tank?He's big. Jesus, Morelli said. I had to fall in love with a woman who works with a guy named Tank. You love me?Of course I love you. I just don't want to marry you...
[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...
After major-league criminals who couldn’t be caught through legal means. So Nick remained a major-league criminal himself, secretly working for the FBI, and Kate remained a top FBI field agent, secret...
Cognoscenti
My knee,
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...
Was pulled out of the water and wrapped in a blanket. Someone removed the cuffs. Ranger held me tight against him, his cheek against mine. You’re okay, he said. You’re safe.
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.
Life is a jelly donut. You don't really know what it's about till you bite into it. And then, just when you decide it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best t-shirt.
A few years back, a con to trick
A gift card says I feel obligated to get you something, but I don’t care enough to put any effort into finding just the right gift.
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...
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 here's the good part: He got a tongue could measure twenty-one inches. Bet Mrs. Giraffe likes that one.
And let’s be honest, I was excited about going to New York with Ranger. Plus I know this is shallow, but I was in his megabucks Porsche, feeling like I was in a James Bond movie.
And something chocolate, of course. A meal was not a meal without some sort of chocolate for desert.
And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.
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