Female Sleuth Quotes

“That could be a very sexy story.”
― LynDee Walker, Front Page Fatality

“But that’s the thing about dead people: they can’t warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger.”
― LynDee Walker, Front Page Fatality

“How does this keep happening to you?” Fiona asked me. “Mackinac’s a little island but guess what, you come across yet another body!”
“Hold on a minute, stop right there. Forget the you part about the bodies. Okay, the first one was mine I’ll give you that, but the last one was definitely a we body.”
― Duffy Brown, Tandem Demise

“My motto? Don’t trust someone who is just as cagey as yourself."
"What kind of detective are you?” “A lousy one and proud of it. I write, remember?”
She looked down at her hand & laughed. “Berretta doesn’t make lighters.” "Why I was a writer! My life revolved around fiction. I could make something up"
"She looked down at her hand & laughed. “Berretta doesn’t make lighters.”
"So they're not Tolstoy, they're a little shorter...Okay, okay a lot. Go ahead, read my mystery series anyway."
"A detective has their boundaries especially me. So mine shifted occasionally...okay a lot"
“Beat it, Buster. My temper and this mace have a hair trigger.”
“Interference could be lethal.” I got right up in his face, hissing, “Don’t push me, I’m hormonal.”
I'm not really a lousy detective, just rough around the edges.”
― Peggy A. Edelheit

“When you see me in a scarf you may think “Oh, she went to some trouble there.” But no, when I wear a scarf it means "this grey blouse was unwrinkled and those mocha pants make my behind look fine and voila I have a vivid grey and brown silk scarf which means I have transformed self from bone lazy to coordinated accessory maven.(Maid in Waiting publish date June 2014)”
― Bridget Allison, Maid in the Shade

“When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.”
― Adrianne Lee, You Don't Know Jack

“My name is Jane Delaney and I do things my paying customers can’t do, don’t want to do, don’t want to be seen doing, can’t bring themselves to do, and/or don’t want it to be known they’d paid someone to do. To dead people.”
― Pamela Burford, Undertaking Irene

“He held out his hand. “Dante Gabriel Rossetti,” he said. “You will have heard of me.”
Jo shook his hand and frowned. “No, but you obviously think I should have.”
At his crestfallen expression, she smiled. Everyone had heard of Rossetti.”
― Lisa M. Lane, Murder at an Exhibition

“Disaster strikes faster than you can say "Abramacabra.”
― Lina Hansen

“When it comes to murder, one mustn't let a promising clue go to waste.”
― Vanessa Kelly, Murder in Highbury