Josie, like Gretchen, isn't afraid of blood. What woman would be?
That's exactly where you're wrong! Any kind of person can murder. Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament! People get so far -- and it takes just the least little thing to push the...
You know that if I ever do settle down with some woman, Lillie is going to come after you next, Hawk said. She’s relentless. She’ll have you married within weeks after I tie the knot. Mark my words. H...
For me, writing isn't about money and fame. It's about passion, an art form that I want to share with the world, expand the horizons to new worlds, new experiences, and new adventures.
The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called Little Red Riding Hood.
The assholes are always puzzled when the order of the universe is restored, when they are held accountable for their cowardly, pretentious, loveless ways.
If you live your life in fear and had the opportunity to change. . .could you muster the strength?
I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.
Payne sought clarification. Vertical or horizontal?Horizontal, of course.Sorry but I can’t help you. Will you pipe down for a minute? Naturally she was dead since I work at a cemetery. Her face struck...
The reader is the final arbiter.
As a rule, I had murder in my mind. That day, I had it in my heart.
In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.
Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yester...
Better an honest devil than a lying angel...
At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at m...
If you look into the face of evil, evil's gonna look right back at you
One day you see a man walking down the road, the next day you come to his yard and find him dead... Why is it that he cannot do what the living do? It is because the thing that gave power to these par...
They'll die in overtime
...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.
Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a su...
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