51 Quotes About Crime Fiction

We all have our guilty pleasures. Whether it’s a certain type of music, a certain kind of movie or television show, or a certain genre of books, we have our favorites that we just can’t stop loving. And sometimes, those guilty pleasures include the crime-fiction genre. Based on the concept of crime fiction, authors create stories based on real-life crimes and crimes that are inspired by real people Read more

These are the best crime-fiction quotes to inspire you to read more crime fiction books.

All I knew was, my Father was famous for being...
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All I knew was, my Father was famous for being a loser, and a loser that wanted nothing to do with me, since the day I was born. Holly Hood
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My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear (“Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires! ”) signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there’d be real hell to pay. Ed Lynskey
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Last time I was on the welcome Wagon, I was holding some guy by the balls for 15 minutes while the inspector explained why should leave (Birmingham) and go home... It were really painful. I bet it was.' Yeah I got terrible cramp in me fingers, but he were very attentive. Jim McGrath
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I came, I saw, I concurred... Darren E. Laws
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I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. Catherine Astolfo
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You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski Laurie Stevens
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I wake and in those first fuddled moments forget you’re not here. I must have been dreaming about you — a tense, erotic dream. I reach out in bed to the place your body should be. It’s cold and there is no hollow. Even the bed is forgetting you. A.J. Waines
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We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. John D. MacDonald
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Flowers are fragile and ephemeral... Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai Gosho Aoyama
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When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon. James Crumley
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When you’retwenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to betwenty-five or so that youbegin to suspect you’ve beenlooking at the map upsidedown, and not until you’reforty are you entirely sure. Stephen King
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But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us. Stephen King
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She looked beautiful, standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future. Instead, I left her where she was. That's not the world we live in, she'd said, and how right she was, Stephen King
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We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough. Close enough. Stephen King
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You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you. Debbi Mack
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She was a cute as a washtub. Raymond Chandler
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When it came to watching television, Ted was ambidextrous. Judy Penz Sheluk
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There are times when you have to commit a crime to prevent an even bigger one. At least, that’s what I tell myself when I can’t sleep at night. Judy Penz Sheluk
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On a Wednesday morning in mid- June, Eli Sharpe was sitting at his desk treating jetlag with strong coffee when he heard a knock on his apartment door. After a second, more insistent knock, he added a dash of George Dickel to his Folgers and hid the pint in a desk drawer. “It’s open, ” he said loudly and stood up to receive his visitor. In walked a tall blonde, her high heels stabbing the scuffed- up hardwoods, her perfume battling the smell of coffee and dust permeating Eli’s six-hundred square foot studio apartment that doubled as a working office. Her perfume won the battle: Light Blue by Dolce & Gabbana. Same scent his third fiancée used to wear. Max Everhart
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At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reï¬â€šection ï¬â€šared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains. Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen. Gillian Flynn
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Emilia typed in her password and checked her inbox. A review by the Secretariat de Gobernación of drug cartel activities across Mexico. A report of a robbery in Acapulco’s poorest barrio neighborhood that would probably never be investigated. Notice of a reward for a child kidnapped in Ixtapa who was almost certainly dead by now. Her phone rang. It was the desk sergeant saying that a Señor Rooker wished to see her. Emilia avoided Rico’s eye as she said, yes, the sergeant could let el señor pass into the detectives’ area. A minute later Rucker was standing by her desk, sweat beaded on his forehead. The starched collar of his shirt was damp. “There’s a head, ” he said breathlessly. “Someone’s head in a bucket on the hood of my car. Carmen Amato
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Surprised huh, thought you had me back in prison didn’t you? To answer your question what keeps me alive is my drive, my drive to kill you! I have nothing, but hate for you and your family. It will be my pleasure taking you out. I don’t care about power, plutonium or even being rich. None of that matters to me. I only care about taking you out. Even if I die I want to be the one who is called the killer of Angel Medina! There’s no where for you to go. Now we will truly see who is better! Come on put up you hands and prepare for your final battle of your life! - Orlando from Framed: The Second Book of the Thousand Years War. Angel Ramon Medina
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My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order. Mel Healy
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I go where I want to go, I do what I want to do, and I am beholden to no one. Mark M. DeRobertis
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Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good. Murder in the Dog Park Jill Yesko
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As I left his office he continued his telephone conversation, and as Amanda had declared, she was in fact waiting for me. “So, Amanda, what is it now? Who is it you want to fix me up with today?” “ Well actually, I don’t have any new candidates in my mind just yet. I actually need some decorating advice.  I want to tackle my living room den. It has been about three years since it has had a lift. It needs a new theme, and I would like your opinion of what direction I should consider . modern contemporary or vintage?” “ Well, what does your husband think, or does he have a vote?” “ Well, on paper, yes, but between us women . absolutely not. . Hazel Cartwright
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My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love. Jess C. Scott
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I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right. William Landay
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She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next. Alexa Grace
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Angel you may have lucked out this time, but just remember I’m going to be on your ass until I get my revenge. I promise you this will not be the last time you will see me! You’re a dead man Medina, maybe not now but soon! - Orlando to Angel under the crumbling furnace in the hotel. Angel Ramon Medina
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That's the thing about digging holes, ” Quinn said. “There are no assurances you'll find what you want–or want what you find. Tami Hoag
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I’ve sometimes regretted the women I’ve been. There have been so many: daughter, sister, cop, tough broad, several kinds of whore, jilted lover, ideal wife, heroine, killer. I’ll provide the truth of them all, inasmuch as I’m capable of telling the truth. Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, almost an addiction, that’s hard to break even with the people closest to you, out of the business. They say never trust a woman who tells you her age; if she can’t keep that secret, she can’t keep yours. I’m fifty-nine. . Becky Masterman
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Sometimes death is even better than to confess a secret. Alper Kaya
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Reaching for the basket of sex accoutrements, she took a thin, red tube, squeezed some clear gel onto her fingertips and returned to fondle his balls. “What’s that?” he asked, feeling a warm, tingling sensation around his genitals.“ You not try before?” She smiled saucily. He shook his head.“… Special for you. Simon Palmer
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Her aunt and uncle worked fifteen hours a day in their desperate attempt to keep the corner shop in profit, and their Sundays were marked by exhaustion. The moral code by which they lived was that of cleanliness, respectability and prudence. Religion was for those who had the time for it, a middle-class indulgence. P.D. James
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Kara knew je only recognised t and a on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy pupeeter Saira Viola
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We pay people and reward them for greed and sleaze. When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure pay cheque and a tacky lingerie line....selling filth so you can get your face on Time magazine... From Jukebox Saira Viola
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This wasn't the last of it. Now that Finia was carrying his baby, they would be together forever, whether she liked it or not. Yawatta Hosby
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How dare she not give in to his "vulnerability." There was only so much rejection he could take. Yawatta Hosby
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Finia glanced towards her bedroom, wishing the darkness would swallow her whole. Yawatta Hosby
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The battle rages everyday. In the Arena of God Brian Oldham
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Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn’t kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth. V.S. Kemanis
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Rage and despair shook her for minutes or hours. She was unaware of the passage of time. Finally spent, she retreated inward and collapsed onto the floor in a fetal position, the letter in shreds around her. The room had grown dark. Like a gentle snowfall, the cold mantle of an unbearable silence descended. V.S. Kemanis
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Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there was something waiting for her on the other side of this crowd. V.S. Kemanis
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For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses. John Nardizzi
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Get a load of this, Frank.” Gerald Peyton’s pause set off his pronouncement. “She is expecting to get a wedding ring.”“ That’s understandable, ” I said, unsure how he could afford a ring on what our firm cleared. Diamond rings–more sold in December than in any other month of the year–went for a cool grand per karat. Weeks ago, I’d priced them–again–for my domestic situation. “What seems to be the problem?”“ That’s a big leap for me to make.”“ I expect you’ll make it with room to spare. Ed Lynskey
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A diamond wedding ring, you say?” I studied his face. Was he putting me on? He looked earnest. “As any guy would expect, a diamond is what she’s after, ” I said. “Did you hold out hope you’d get by for anything less? Ed Lynskey
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There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn’t hang up on. Mark Capell
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I ought to warn you, dear, he can get rather wild when he’s hungry Wilkie Martin
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No sun cream or condoms, just in case you’re looking at the lady-boys. There’s plenty of AIDS lingering about and every STD you can imagine. Simon Palmer