Rachel McLean > Quotes

“She’d screamed and tossed it to the floor, horrified. He would have shouted at her. Never touch the evidence. Never contaminate the crime scene. She’d sat next to him through enough TV crime shows, listening to him cursing the writers, muttering about detectives who stood in blood trails or grabbed door frames before putting their gloves on.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“That was, if she was lucky. At home every day, he would have a thousand opportunities to find fault with her. She would never be able to go out, never have what little contact she did manage”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Zoe wondered what kind of woman stuck around after her husband was arrested for abusing children.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“Mo thought of his own parents. His dad was traditional, like this family. His marriage to Catriona had caused a rift between them that had only cooled with his daughter Fiona’s birth.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“For money laundering. The irony that they’d been convicted by the evidence she’d uncovered wasn’t lost on her. But Jory Shand and Howard Petersen belonged in jail. Cowering in the nonces’ wing of a high security facility, as terrified as those kids had been.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“the historical height restrictions, or if he’d shrunk. Next to him sat DCI David Randle, her new boss. The two of them had their heads close, deep in conversation.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Work with her, Zoe.” Lesley pushed herself off the desk. “Play nice. Whatever you or I think of the politics, we want to catch this bastard, and you never know what might help.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“But it is what it is. He tries to persuade them to convert, then when they refuse, he removes the body organ that he thinks produces their sexual behaviour.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Nicholas shrugged. He liked Carl. He had an air of trustworthiness, and talked to Nicholas like he was a grown-up and not a kid.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“I don’t know what I’m going to do without him.” For thirty years he’d been the centre of her world. Every waking moment had been focused on him. Supporting his career, raising his children. Pacifying him.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Talking to Annette had rattled her, as if she wasn’t rattled enough already”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Fallout

“He was articulate, he was coherent. He’d thought about what he was going to say to us. It was bullshit, all of it, but it kind of made sense in its own sick way.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“don’t know. But what I’m wondering is whether Jenson’s death has got anything to do with the fact that it was his girlfriend who found Laurence. Not to mention his involvement in the investigation.” “You think he knew something about Laurence’s murder? Kayla told him something?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Reprisal

“She’d always assumed it was a privilege afforded to smokers, forming their unofficial networks while they huddled outside for a fag.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Nothing’s informal with Professional Standards, Zoe thought, but instead of objecting she nodded. She had nothing to hide, after all.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Reprisal

“He’s eighteen, love. It’s perfectly legal.” “Drinking with his alcoholic grandmother isn’t how I want my son spending his time when he’s got A levels to prepare for.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Terror

“Paul Jackson’s a cold fish. Grown up bitter. Blames his mother. He couldn’t give me any solid reason why. He just hates her.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“shook”
― Rachel McLean, The Cairn

“Barbara Wilson was sharing posts from far-right pages. The kind of pages that hid their racism behind gung-ho patriotism. She grimaced.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“He was argumentative and borderline lazy, and he rubbed the constables up the wrong way.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Terror

“Your brother has been abducted. We’re looking for him. You don’t need me to tell you all that. And you also don’t need me to tell you that an officer so closely involved with an investigation is always reassigned.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Desires

“Then the party. It was supposed to be a surprise, but the idiots that worked for him had been about as subtle as an elephant in a paint factory.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Impossible to have any respect when your perspective on the bright and shiny West Midlands Police Service is the small minority of bad apples.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Reprisal

“Trevor Hamm had supplied kids to the Canary paedophile network. They hadn’t managed to prove it yet, but she knew”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“He told me the two girls are nosy parkers. His words. Always creeping around the building, filming people.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Reprisal

“You think I’m dodgy. Tax evasion. Here.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Yes, it is, David. I didn’t realise it at the time, but it’s who you were. You were his puppy, his slave.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Don’t you say another word. I would never take dirty money, Jim. If you don’t know that about me, you know nothing. Have you told Nicholas you think I might be capable of this kind of thing?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Terror

“Jenson tugged at his t-shirt. He shrugged. “Who knows what makes women act the way they do.” He grinned at Mo, who didn’t return the smile.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Reprisal

“love you too, she thought as she closed the door behind him. But if she did, why did he piss her off so much?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Fallout