Andy Maslen > Quotes

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.’ – Sigmund Freud”
― Andy Maslen, The Seventh Girl

“She consulted her screen, tapped a couple of keys and nodded. Instructed Gabriel to look into a webcam clipped to the top of her screen and printed him a visitor pass a few seconds later. She slid it into a plastic badge holder clipped to a red, white and blue lanyard and handed it over.”
― Andy Maslen, Edged Weapon

“But that type of man works very hard to cover his tracks, doesn’t he? They use their power to coerce their victims into keeping quiet. Failing that, there’s always the payoff-plus-NDA option.’ Which made Kat think of Sir Anthony Bone. Because if there were any payoffs or non-disclosure agreements flying around, it would be the lawyer who’d handle them on behalf of his celebrity client, wouldn’t it?”
― Andy Maslen, The Lying Man

“She smiled”
― Andy Maslen, The Perfect Girl

“In her right jacket pocket she found an unused dog poo bag: she had spares in most of her trousers and jackets. She dropped the key inside and knotted the bag shut.”
― Andy Maslen, The Lying Man

“It’s called confirmation bias. That’s when—’ ‘—people search for evidence to back up their existing beliefs.”
― Andy Maslen, The Seventh Girl

“surface”
― Andy Maslen, Fury

“Over shared laughter”
― Andy Maslen, The Rebel Son

“tweezed”
― Andy Maslen, Plain Dead

“according to Occam’s razor the solution requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely.”
― Andy Maslen, The Rebel Son

“it’s a bit like me fancying Jack Reacher”
― Andy Maslen, The Unseen Sister

“people used to come to Shirley House late at night and collect girls, then bring them back in the morning. They weren’t factory workers or dustmen or shop staff. They were rich, middle-aged businessmen. Lawyers. Even senior coppers. All us kids knew what went on. So if you’re asking me was Mark Swift a rapist? I don’t know. But it wouldn’t surprise me. That sort think their money gives them a get-out-of-jail-free card.”
― Andy Maslen, The Lying Man

“skirt,”
― Andy Maslen, Blind Impact

“You could just send that to the media and drop a bomb on her head that would take her out completely.”
― Andy Maslen, First Casualty

“Why was it, Gabriel wondered, even when you’d done nothing wrong, you felt trapped? Those moments waiting while some minor functionary of the state enjoyed exercising the power he’d been granted felt like waiting for a jury’s “guilty” verdict.”
― Andy Maslen, Trigger Point

“The group of which I’m a member has what one might call transnational interests. We set the wheels in motion for globalisation decades ago. Trade deals”
― Andy Maslen, First Casualty

“Dead was dead. Work homicide long enough – e.g.”
― Andy Maslen, The Silent Wife

“After a short wait”
― Andy Maslen, The Unseen Sister

“when she was thinking deeply. ‘What about the crime itself? The MO, I mean. What does that suggest to you?’ ‘Do we know what he was hit with yet?”
― Andy Maslen, The Lying Man

“As Hamilton exited his side of the car, Gabriel took the Glock from his coat pocket and eased off the safety. Then he followed, pushing the door closed behind him with a damped clunk.”
― Andy Maslen, First Casualty

“Punishment”
― Andy Maslen, The Rebel Son

“Sounds like a fifties housewife”
― Andy Maslen, The Silent Wife

“creepy, don’t you think?”
― Andy Maslen, Shallow Ground

“Secure the scene. Look for witnesses. Bring in the CSIs. Contact the pathologist. Identify the victim.”
― Andy Maslen, The Lying Man

“Aeschylus”
― Andy Maslen, First Casualty

“Paedophiles”
― Andy Maslen, The Rebel Son

“she”
― Andy Maslen, The Seventh Girl

“was”
― Andy Maslen, Crooked Shadow

“when she was thinking deeply. ‘What about the crime itself? The MO, I mean. What does that suggest to you?’ ‘Do we know what he”
― Andy Maslen, The Lying Man

“Be back in a little while.’ Gabriel ran for the front door.”
― Andy Maslen, Peacemaker