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“The less the killer cares about consequences to himself, the”
― Todd Borg, Tahoe Killshot

“Joan burst out in laughter. “Haunted? Mr. McKenna, do you realize what you’re saying?” She took a step backward and put her hands on her hips. God, she looks amazing, he thought. In his mind he wanted to touch her and lift up the dress to feel the softness of her skin. Then he recovered. No, you can’t grab women by the pussy and— “Mr. McKenna!” Joan stated, and slapped him in the face. “What did I do?” he wondered. “You can’t grab us by the . . . well, you know bloody well what I mean!” Her nostrils widened. Richard touched his cheek, which slightly burned under his fingers. He didn’t realize he’d spoken aloud. But the damage was done. Two strikes, he thought. What happens at strike three wasn’t something he wanted to find out. He straightened his uniform and stood back from the counter. “Look, Joan. I didn’t mean anything by that. It’s just locker room talk.”
― Cynthia Fridsma, Volume 5: The End Game

“You need get you some tenny ball f’your walkie talkie,” she said to him. “Make for go better.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Forgotten Coast: Books 1-4

“She was awfully attached to her voodoo, and it would be embarrassing for the town gangster to get buzzed to hell and back by his two hundred year old nanny.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Forgotten Coast: Books 1-4

“Some people fish, some people watch TV, we shoot,”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Dead Center

“An initial survey of a murder scene was as much about collecting questions as it was about collecting evidence.”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Dead Reckoning

“Beneath each wing were two white patches known as stars. They looked like Xs to the observer on the ground. The Native Americans referred to the golden eagles as spotted eagles and said the white stars symbolized the Milky Way from whence they had originally come. Katie loved the myths and legends about the golden eagle. The Native Americans revered the eagle and it was often at the center of their sacred medicine ceremonies. A golden eagle was seen as the symbol of the east. In the old days, eagle feathers were believed to bring a person closer to the Great Spirit. Because it flew the highest of all birds, feathers from an eagle were closest to the Great Spirit. The feathers carried the messages back to the human who wore them.”
― Lindsay McKenna, The Defender

“I’m very sorry to have brought you this news, but I promise that we’ll”
― Dawn Lee McKenna, Lake Morality

“I have been anticipating tears but I have been hoping for a reprieve from them, at least until after we have eaten dinner. That was too much to ask for, apparently, so I will plunge into her latest emotional morass manfully, as I have a thousand times before.”
― Kathleen McKenna Hewtson, Jungle Rot: Jonestown, an American Holocaust

“the April day when the Americans mounted the stone steps and pushed the door buzzer, rain had fallen for eleven of the last eleven days, and Aldine McKenna was waiting,”
― Laura McNeal, The Practice House

“His mustache was steely gray, trimmed to the textbook profile of the top half of a hamburger bun. I will not be fucked with, that mustache told the world.”
― Cara McKenna, Hard Time

“There’s nothing a woman likes more than a silent man;”
― Christina McKenna, The Misremembered Man

“Would That All Yahweh's People Were Prophets!”(Numbers 11:29)”
― Megan McKenna, Prophets: Words of Fire: Word of Fire

“That’s the spirit, James!”
― Christina McKenna, The Misremembered Man

“should take a wee read at them before you meet her, just”
― Christina McKenna, The Misremembered Man

“leaving a chink through which Rose could reach to help build for Jamie a whole, hitherto unimagined future. Chapter four “The doctor will see you now, Mr. McCloone.” Jamie, head buried”
― Christina McKenna, The Misremembered Man

“Chapter nineteen”
― Christina McKenna, The Misremembered Man

“Matty carried the attitude of the eternal pessimist; a man who felt badly when he felt good for fear he’d feel worse when he felt better.”
― Christina McKenna, The Misremembered Man

“My flatmate’s away for the weekend. If you fancied meeting against every wall in the place.”
― Cara McKenna, Her Best Laid Plans