And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it.
Always pay attention to your dreams, her mother had taught her. They’re voices telling you what you already know, whispering advice you haven’t yet heeded.
He knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.
Mother, thought Claire, cannot knight her own son. It must be done by another man.
You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask.
This is the way modern men do battle, not with spear and sword, but with credit cards.
There were perhaps one hundred billion galaxies in the universe, and each galaxy contained a hundred billion stars. How many of those stars had planets, and how many planets had life? Panspermia, the...
The gate downstairs has a dead bolt, said Frost. There’s no way you could pick the lock. Then how could anyone … She went dead silent. Turned toward the doorway. Footsteps were thumping up the stairs....
She’d earlier heard of Jane’s reputation, muttered by the male cops: Bitch. Ballbuster. Always on the rag. The woman who strode onto the crime scene that day had certainly been blunt, focused, and rel...
She'd loved their scent--not sweet and cloying like other flowers, but pungent. Assertive. She'd loved the way they sprang up wild in vacant lots and roadsides, reminders that true beauty is spontaneo...
Maybe it's because I can't have him that I feel safe wanting him. He's beyond my reach, so he won't hurt me.
Maura moved quietly to the alcove. There she lit three candles for three women. One for Sister Ursula. One for Sister Camille. And one for a faceless leper whose name she would never know. She did not...
IF INDEED THESE VARIOUS ATTACKS IN DIFFERENT STATES ARE LINKED, then we’re dealing with a set of highly complex ritual behaviors, said Dr. Lawrence Zucker. A criminal psychologist who served as consul...
I'm sorry to say that too often, I haven't a clue why people do things like this. Why they drown their babies or strangle their wives or shoot their coworkers. I see the results of their actions, but...
I look at the others seated around the campfire. Mr. and Mrs. Matsunaga are diligently reviewing the day’s photos on his camera. Vivian and Sylvia lounge in their low-cut tank tops, oozing pheromones...
How did Elliot die? You said it happened six years ago. Yeah, the kid got it in his fool head to go to Africa. He wanted to see the animals before they got wiped out by hunters like me. Interpol says...
He’s here to take revenge. A third shot thunders and I dart toward the blackness of the bush, am almost to the perimeter wire when I stumble over something and go down on my knees. I feel warm flesh,...
Her attention was fixed so completely on Jane that she did not see her own death hurtling toward her head. The poker slammed into Edwina’s skull, and Lily felt the crack of crushing bone, transmitted...
Frost lurched away, gagging. The nude man hung upside down, his ankles bound with orange nylon cord. Like a pig carcass hanging in a slaughterhouse, his abdomen had been sliced open, the cavity stripp...
Does he think it's so easy? One smile, one touch and all is forgiven -Dr Maura Isles