Charlie Gallagher > Quotes

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps he hears a different drummer,”
― Charlie Gallagher, Ruthless

“Jenny still wore the same white top, the sleeves pulled up over her wound, the material frayed, singed and stained with dry blood. Her jeans were scuffed at the knees from climbing the wall and she was caught by a stab of pain in her ribs as she turned to where Anne called out to her in the kitchen. Jenny had gone to her room to tie her hair back and freshen up with some borrowed toiletries.”
― Charlie Gallagher, Then She Ran

“swelled”
― Charlie Gallagher, He Will Find You

“spoke to the DCI and bigged it up a little. A lot actually. He called a superintendent to give the green light. You’ll need to speak to him when you’re”
― Charlie Gallagher, The Deadly Houses

“He wanted to stop for a moment, to think, but also to listen, to be sure that he was alone. They had never worked out where Callie”
― Charlie Gallagher, The Friend

“He switched”
― Charlie Gallagher, Bodily Harm

“weren’t finished. They were too big for that. Lennockshire”
― Charlie Gallagher, End Game

“the”
― Charlie Gallagher, Her Last Breath

“I don’t recall you giving me much of a choice, George.’ Andy McGuiness looked slimmer than George remembered. Slim enough to verge on unwell perhaps. His face was gaunt, his cheeks more sucked in, tighter against his cheekbones. He had bags under his eyes — eyes that looked red and tired.”
― Charlie Gallagher, Then She Ran

“Harry picked at a discarded newspaper. There was a time when he read them every day — he’d even had them delivered for a spell. He never read them anymore and didn’t watch the news either. What wasn’t depressing was either entirely sensationalised or entirely made-up. The problem with twenty-four-hour news channels was the need to fill twenty-four hours. Melissa returned. They waited for a spotty youth with an ill-fitting uniform to clear the mess from their table.”
― Charlie Gallagher, Detective Maddie Ives Books 1–4

“four members of my police staff in the last twenty-four hours.”
― Charlie Gallagher, The Langthorne Series Books 1-3

“the flames”
― Charlie Gallagher, The Complete George Elms Langthorne Crime Thriller Series Books 1-7

“He gestured for the conversation to continue somewhere they would be out of sight. Marsden”
― Charlie Gallagher, The Friend

“as”
― Charlie Gallagher, Bodily Harm

“And you know what, that’s true, because I want us, I want the family that I had … my family.”
― Charlie Gallagher, The Friend

“You mean when you walked away?’ ‘No. When he was charged we all signed it. We agreed not to talk about this case. About the deaths. About what we knew. If you’re here just to find out about that then you’re wasting your time. You’re not press, are you? You know impersonating the police is a criminal offence, right?’ ‘Blimey, Dennis! Of course I do. I’m not here to lie to you, mate. Let me tell you what’s happened here — the way I see it at least. I got a call yesterday from my chief inspector. I was at home. He tells me that he needs me to do a prison visit to get a feel for a prisoner as part of working out the influence he might have on other prisoners. I come out from the prison and give him a call, and he suggests I come up here to learn a bit more about him. I get no guidance on how that’s supposed to happen, who”
― Charlie Gallagher, Her Last Breath

“I don’t have time”
― Charlie Gallagher, Detective Maddie Ives Books 1–6

“I get the impression there is a lot about this fella that’s need-to-know.’ ‘We all signed something. Something that said we”
― Charlie Gallagher, Her Last Breath

“what”
― Charlie Gallagher, Then She Ran

“But his message today was different. The Major wasn’t long off the phone and the decision he’d reported came as no surprise to George, though it hadn’t stopped him beating his steering wheel in frustration as he queued to come off the M25 to head towards central London. He’d calmed down enough to agree to meet with Henry Roberts. There was some paperwork for him and his solicitor to sign that needed witnessing by a representative from the Home Office. George Elms would be acting as that representative”
― Charlie Gallagher, Her Last Breath

“shirt off.”
― Charlie Gallagher, Ruthless

“Detective Inspector George Elms walked the corridor of Belmarsh Prison with a sense of trepidation. Visiting these places was always a strange experience and not just because he was responsible for condemning his fair share of men to a miserable existence in its grey-walled, ten-by-six-foot cells. The atmosphere was one of pent-up frustration. It hung heavily in the air, mingled with the visible, moving dust and the claustrophobic heat. You could taste it in the air. It got worse the deeper you got, the closer to the Category A prisoners — the ‘lifers.’ These men were in the high-security wing, destined never again to see the sun as free men. Some would hardly see another soul. It was one of these men that George was here to see today.”
― Charlie Gallagher, Her Last Breath

“MG” in this instance referred to “Manual of Guidance”, and the “series” referred to the fact that they were a series of forms that the Crown Prosecution Service required to be completed for every criminal investigation — the more serious, the more forms to complete. They were the papers that would form the basis for any prosecution at court, which meant that anything appearing on an MG Series had to be factual, backed up by evidence.”
― Charlie Gallagher, Detective Maddie Ives Books 5–7

“experience leading a murder investigation without the scrutiny. This is just the sort of thing I was waiting for to kick this whole thing off.’ Joel was rubbing at his face, and the superintendent”
― Charlie Gallagher, The Friend

“least I know what I’m not ordering you not to do.’ Chapter 28 George was in the foyer of the hospital when his phone rang. It was Ali. ‘What’s up, Ali?’ ‘George, I’m done up at the house, but I’ve just had a rather”
― Charlie Gallagher, Then She Ran

“Sometimes we all need a bit of help to work out the world. It’s a shithole, George. There are people in it that are from a place we can never understand.”
― Charlie Gallagher, Her Last Breath

“that he actively seeks to groom his victims, then attempts to coerce them to end their own lives, thus removing the traces of his offending.”
― Charlie Gallagher, The Friend

“Huntington waited while Helen tapped at her computer, moved the mouse an inch and looked up at George, who had scuttled yet further back on his chair. ‘George, you have bits to tie up before you go home, I’m sure?’ She held his gaze”
― Charlie Gallagher, Bodily Harm

“mind if it was a few hours on a park”
― Charlie Gallagher, Then She Ran

“matching — you get me?”
― Charlie Gallagher, Detective Maddie Ives Books 1–4