Pauline Rowson > Quotes

“He watched her leave with mixed feelings. His heart wanted to trust her, but his head and his gut told him he couldn’t.”
― Pauline Rowson, The Cowes Week Murders

“Well, what are you waiting for?’ You to climb on your broomstick and fly away,”
― Pauline Rowson, The Solent Murder Mysteries Books 10-12

“Horton could tell instantly there was no one in the house, dead or alive. Death left a place much colder than this, you could smell it, taste it, and sense it. It crept up your flesh, quickened your breath, and sent your pulse racing to cope with the first shock of meeting it. But this house was empty, just a shell.”
― Pauline Rowson, The Portsmouth Murders

“I don’t know where you put it.’ Horton eyed Cantelli’s lithe figure. ‘My nervous energy burns it off.’ ‘Barney, it would take a thunderbolt to get you to generate nervous energy.’ ‘Oh, I don’t know, you should see me on the sideline”
― Pauline Rowson, The Hayling Island Murders

“The Ballad of Reading Gaol”.”
― Pauline Rowson, The Chidham Creek Murders

“Having a lovely time in sunny Sweden, the police are extremely efficient, which is more than I can say for you. Hope you’ve solved all our outstanding cases. I expect a full report on my return.”
― Pauline Rowson, The Chidham Creek Murders

“I should have doffed my hat,’ Cantelli whispered. ‘You’re not wearing one.’ ‘If there was a mat I’d wipe my shoes. This hall is bigger than my house and my neighbour’s put together.”
― Pauline Rowson, The Chidham Creek Murders

“be murdered I’d have asked,’ he replied, thinking sometimes this job was shit. No, correction, most times it was. But the thought of getting the scum who had bashed her head in, and making a strong enough case against him that not even the CPS or a jury could drive a truck through, sustained him. Except for two things, he considered dejectedly: it wouldn’t be his case, and just as with Luke Felton, the bastard would either get a lenient sentence or be let out on licence to do it again . . . and again. Could Luke Felton have done this?”
― Pauline Rowson, The Portchester Castle Murders

“Horton”
― Pauline Rowson, The Portchester Castle Murders

“skin because tattoo pigment lies encapsulated deep in the skin and is therefore not easily destroyed. I found very small traces of a tattoo on his right arm.”
― Pauline Rowson, The Cowes Week Murders

“He had been accompanied by his father and the family solicitor who, between them, had made the boy sound so mild mannered that it made Clark Kent sound like Rambo.”
― Pauline Rowson, The Portsmouth Murders

“to murder him?’ Horton shrugged. ‘How did Owen seem at Arina’s funeral?”
― Pauline Rowson, The Isle Of Wight Murders

“sotto voce”
― Pauline Rowson, The South Binness Murders

“Cantelli started up. ‘I had an incredible urge to say, “Goodnight, sir, sorry to have troubled you, sir,” in my best grovelling PC Plod voice, and salute as though I was in Dixon of Dock Green with my helmet on.”
― Pauline Rowson, The Chidham Creek Murders