Robert Crais Quotes

Nope. I hung up, bought an iced tea from a sausage grill, then stared at the bay. The water was clean and blue, and Catalina was in sharp relief twenty-six miles away. A young woman in short-shorts an...

Mrs. Phelps, sixty-two years old, was overweight, dowdy, and a retired sheriff’s deputy from Riverside, California. She had moved to Culver City with her new husband, a retired Los Angeles police offi...

Mrs. Bartello opened the screen wider, her eyes bunching with sorrow. I’m sorry. You don’t know. I’m sorry. Donna passed away. Holman felt himself slow as if he had been drugged; as if his heart and b...

More overblown, effusive praise for Daniel’s efforts. Thank

Miss Stanik? That your name, Candace Stanik? Her voice was soft, but thin and strained. Pike wasn’t listening to her; he listened past her, searching for other occupants. A crisp medicinal smell of et...

Meryl Lawrence was in her mid-forties, with sandy hair and the trim, sturdy build of a woman who took care of herself. She wet her lips as she stared at the phone, thinking, and finally glanced up. Wh...

Maggie reached the door well before Scott, and saw another door ahead. The intruder and another man were waiting beyond it. Ten thousand generations filled her with a guardian’s rage. Scott was hers t...

Larkin hooked her arm around his, as though the Santa Anas would blow her away if she wasn’t anchored. She glanced into the market.

Kyle was my friend. You have to take care of your friends.

Jonna Lester slapped hard at the couch, then threw the glass pipe to the floor. She stamped both feet. Mad. Life really sucks. That’s true, I said. But think of it this way. She squinted at me, and I...

Daniel hoped they were right. The arrow dude might be some kinda bad-ass mercenary, but if he had a hard-on for the waitress, he was way past the money stage. Men stayed sharp when it came to money. M...

I told myself Tyson was going to pick up their laptops, but half a mile later they joined the drive-thru line at an In-N-Out Burger. Tyson. Eating was constant. Maybe he needed sustenance before they...

I wasn’t an expert on immigration, but anyone living in Southern California becomes conversant with the issue. Do

I went over to the big couch and sat down next to Mimi. She was watching everything the way a goldfish watches the world from its bowl, all big eyes and vulnerability and with an assumption of invisib...

If a future judge excluded the watchband, he or she might also exclude all downstream evidence derived from the band. The downstream evidence was called fruits of the poisonous tree, under the princip...

Holman felt the slowness coalesce into a kind of distant calm.

Button’s face was blank as Pike approached, but a deep line cut Futardo’s brow. Pike wondered what she was thinking. Button’s jacket was already off in anticipation of the coming heat, and his hands w...

He pursed his lips as if wrestling with how much he wanted to say, then finally told me. Have you seen news accounts of the mass graves found south of the border? I nodded. Mass graves containing scor...

Elvis Cole JOE—? Cole realized Pike had hung up. That was the kind of call you got from Joe Pike. You’d answer the phone, he’d grunt something like I’m coming up, and that was it. Polite communication...

He reached from the ceiling with a rubber arm, Krista threw up her hands to ward him off, and Jack came out of nowhere. He flew over her and slammed into Medina like a mongrel dog. Jack’s impact knock...