Mel Sherratt > Quotes

“Before that I had been happy in my life; when I met him I was ecstatic. Or so I thought. Funny how love can cloud your judgement.”
― Mel Sherratt, Don't Look Behind You

“I have been fascinated by some of the research I've done around relationships between abductors and abductees, sadly in some cases over many years, which has raised many questions: Is it always nature versus nurture? Is there an evil streak in some people and not others? Could it be a sequence of events over a short period that makes someone crack, or a whole life of bad things happening to them? And how would we ever know after the event anyway? That's what makes it so interesting to write crime fiction”
― Mel Sherratt

“He laughed as he watched her go. She didn't even sense him. 'Whatever you do,' he said quietly, 'don't look behind you.”
― Mel Sherratt, Don't Look Behind You

“No one can be invisible forever”
― Mel Sherratt, Invisible Victim

“Childhood is supposed to be the best part of your life but, mark my words, it isn't unless you have loving parents. And even then, it can change in a heartbeat. The world you know and love can disappear totally in a few weeks”
― Mel Sherratt, Invisible Victim

“So what? It’s only because you don’t give me any satisfaction.’ ‘That’s because I’m not sixteen.”
― Mel Sherratt, Good Girl

“Grace held her tongue. Rachel Townley seemed no more than a spoiled brat who was using her father’s property to make money from illegal parties.”
― Mel Sherratt, Good Girl

“Mostly she felt guilty for breaking up a family unit of mother and daughter, even though prison was where her half-sister Jade deserved to be after wreaking such carnage last year.”
― Mel Sherratt, Tick Tock

“witnesses and dealing with them – although there hadn’t been any so far – scouring CCTV to see”
― Mel Sherratt, Follow The Leader

“pluckiness disappearing in an instant. ‘Leah said she was”
― Mel Sherratt, Only the Brave

“I spend a lot of time plotting to hurt people I don't know. It's the only thing that makes me happy on my commute into the city centre. Thinking of what I could do to others while I don't interact with anyone at all. That's how I like to be - on the periphery”
― Mel Sherratt, Invisible Victim

“Things don’t happen as quickly in real life as they do on the TV. We have to wait for forensics, gather clues, interview people, which is what we’re doing. So I can assure you this is not about where anyone comes from.”
― Mel Sherratt, Tick Tock

“She was getting far too big for her boots. Just lately he had caught her watching him, staring at him, as if she had some hidden agenda. She’d better not be playing him. If she wasn’t careful, she’d be in for a beating too. He didn’t care who got the wrath of him.”
― Mel Sherratt, Liar Liar

“People liked to offload to her, share gossip too. Of course she never said anything to anyone, so she had garnered a certain trust among the regular tenants, often being seen as a confidante. Her eyes and ears were the best things she had”
― Mel Sherratt, Liar Liar

“dragged her feet as she walked down the street towards the park. Her best friend, Jess, was ill and already she felt lost without her, even though lately she seemed to be glued to the hip of her boyfriend, Cayden. When Jess had rang to say she wasn’t able to go out that night, Katie had suggested calling to see her instead of going to meet Nathan. Nathan was her new boyfriend–but not by choice. It was Cayden who had wanted her to get friendly with him. He saw Nathan as their inroad, their ticket to more involvement with the Barker brothers. Katie didn’t really like him that much. Although she knew some of her other friends were envious because he was attractive in a bad-boy way, his”
― Mel Sherratt, The Girls Next Door

“As the light began to fade from the world, she wondered why she’d been singled out. What had she done to deserve death? Because he was killing her, wasn’t he? And she could do nothing about it.”
― Mel Sherratt, Tick Tock

“That family would be the death of her. She couldn’t wait to finally get the opportunity to put one or both of the brothers behind bars.”
― Mel Sherratt, Good Girl

“his need for control that eventually drove them apart – he had to be right every time. He found it hard to take criticism, found it hard to trust anyone, and so he pushed them away with his nastiness. Equally, he found it hard to communicate his love. For Josie, it had been too close for comfort. When”
― Mel Sherratt, Behind a Closed Door

“Her boyfriend had a car! Some of the girls who had seen her must be green with envy.”
― Mel Sherratt, Liar Liar

“Tucked away her emotions, hid her pain. The British way of dealing with things.”
― Mel Sherratt, Hush Hush

“Nick Carter must have brought Grace back to the force to do his dirty work, get inside information for him. But Grace wouldn’t toe the line, even though she couldn’t have known that Leon was his son. Or at least he thought so.”
― Mel Sherratt, Good Girl

“You don't see it coming. They manipulate you, they smother you with love and affection, making out you're the only thing that matters in their lives, and by the time you realise who they really are, it's too late. They have you.”
― Mel Sherratt, Don't Look Behind You

“To throw acid on him and stab him when he was down? That’s sick, and the sign of a coward.”
― Mel Sherratt, Hush Hush

“a knock-off from a cheap shop in Stockleigh, rather than costing her a fortune from Topshop. Her parents didn’t approve of her wearing too much make-up, so once she’d left her house she’d added some more. She hoped it made her seem more mature, helping to hide her nerves a little. On the Mitchell Estate,”
― Mel Sherratt, The Girls Next Door

“She’d seen compassion from a drug user at the lowest ebb of his life; she’d seen injuries of domestic abuse caused by a high-ranking politician. So much went on behind closed doors regardless of class.”
― Mel Sherratt, Tick Tock

“Have you got children?’ ‘No.’ ‘Thought as much.’ It always irked Grace when people asked her that. Just because she hadn’t got children of her own, it didn’t make her heartless, nor unknowledgeable.”
― Mel Sherratt, Liar Liar

“Leon always felt second best, like the poor relation. Eddie said something and he had to go with it. Well, not any more. He’d had enough of being second in command. He wanted things to be equal or it was over.”
― Mel Sherratt, Good Girl

“You’d never think he could be so violent, would you?’ Lizzie tittered. ‘I must admit, he had such charm about him, no one would have guessed. But he had a really dark side. He kept it well hidden. It was so much fun having him fawn all over me. I pick them out, you see, the lost souls.’ Teagan said nothing, too scared to speak, even if she could think of something to say. Listening to Lizzie, it seemed as if she was enjoying telling her what she had done. She didn’t seem to care who she hurt. She began to lose hope of ever getting away. But she wouldn’t give up, because she knew Grace wouldn’t, either. ‘You won’t win,’ she told her. ‘Grace will find me and you’ll be locked up and—’ ‘I have to get to number five! Don’t you understand?’ Teagan screamed. ‘Be quiet!’ Lizzie sliced a hand across her face. Teagan cried out again. Still bound together, her hands were caught between them. She couldn’t help herself in any way. She really was going to die. SEVENTY-SIX Teagan’s scream travelled through the air towards them. Every hair on Grace’s body stood on end as it pierced her ears. Please don’t let me be too late. ‘This way!’ Frankie shouted and she followed him. Rounding a corner, she saw two people pointing in the direction of the clock tower. In the distance were Teagan and the woman Grace now knew was Lizzie Shelby. Lizzie had a knife in her hand. They were going to be too late. ‘We”
― Mel Sherratt, Tick Tock

“Revenge was different than grief. Revenge was built of more than anger. Revenge was meant to hurt, maim - kill even.”
― Mel Sherratt, The Girls Next Door

“pushed open the door to the bar”
― Mel Sherratt, Taunting the Dead