Peter Lovesey > Quotes

“she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That’s how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the time they seem perfectly sane.”
― Peter Lovesey, The Last Detective

“hunches are mostly your brain telling you what you want to hear.”
― Peter Lovesey, Diamond and the Eye

“I wonder if we’re dealing with an amateur,” she said. “Who keeps a revolver in his sock drawer? This isn’t America.”
― Peter Lovesey, Beau Death

“It was in one of my fashion encyclopedias. It’s funny. Top hats were supposed to be the mark of a well-dressed man, yet they have quite a sinister reputation.” “As worn by undertakers?” “True, but I’m talking about what happened to the people who made them. They treated the felt with salts of mercury, so they were breathing in poisonous fumes. They’d get the shakes and twitch. That’s how the phrase “mad as a hatter” is supposed to have originated.” “I thought that was Alice in Wonderland.” “No it goes back a good thirty years before Lewis Carroll.”
― Peter Lovesey, The Secret Hangman

“ex”
― Peter Lovesey, Beau Death

“That put me in my place, didn’t it? Bishop’s wife, in fourth place in terms of importance in the ward hierarchy.”
― Peter Lovesey, The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

“site”
― Peter Lovesey, The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

“who”
― Peter Lovesey, The Circle: A DCI Helen Mallin Mystery

“It was as good an excuse as any to spend a few last, precious hours with Samuel before he left. Once he did, we’d be allowed only weekly emails and two phone calls a year, on Christmas and Mother’s Day.”
― Peter Lovesey, The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

“This ram raid on Sunday. You’re convinced it’s going to happen?”
― Peter Lovesey, The Secret Hangman

“Like most of us, he had a large blind spot about his own faults.”
― Peter Lovesey, Showstopper

“I sat with that for a long moment, trying to digest the idea that a father of eleven children was funding his children’s missions by stealing Christmas presents from his neighbors. What kind of a messed up world did we live in?”
― Peter Lovesey, The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

“And a reminder to priesthood holders that they have the power to bless their homes against Satan’s incursions in any form, if they haven’t done it already.”
― Peter Lovesey, The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

“The shopper who is tired of Whiteoaks, it might easily be asserted, is a shopper who is tired of credit.”
― Peter Lovesey, The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

“Maybe we could talk to his wife, get her to take some money.” “And make her deal with his anger if he finds out?” Kurt said. “No, I don’t think so.”
― Peter Lovesey, The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

“officers”
― Peter Lovesey, The Last Detective

“If you are,’ the solicitor said,”
― Peter Lovesey, Skeleton Hill

“drawing pad. He withdrew it and”
― Peter Lovesey, Diamond Solitaire: Detective Peter Diamond Book 2

“mid-1970s,”
― Peter Lovesey, The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers