It has often been said that the more unusual the murder the easier it is to solve, but this is a theory I don't believe. Nothing is easy, nothing is simple, and you should think of your investigations as a complicated experiment: look at what remains constant and look at what changes, ask the right questions and don't be afraid of wrong answers, and above all rely on observation and rely on experience. Peter Ackroyd
If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

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Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.

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Please, " he says. "I'm begging you to stop." I still. "I can't stomach your pain, " he says. "I can feel it so strongly and it's making me crazy- please, " he says to me. "Don't be sad. Or hurt. Or guilty. You've done...
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Tahereh Mafi
Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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Alice Sebold
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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Jasper Fforde
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