Fatal Error Quotes

“But she didn’t let herself cry for long. She couldn’t afford to squander the tears.”
― J.A. Jance, Fatal Error

“What happened?” Richard asked. “We put a drone up in the air, or rather, Mark put it up in the air. He’s flown them before with no trouble, but this time it crashed and burned.” Which, Richard thought, is exactly what I programmed it to do: take off, fly flawlessly for a while, and then drop out of the sky for no apparent reason.”
― J.A. Jance, Fatal Error

“Now you couldn’t eat off the dining room table. For one thing, Richard had turned that into his primary assembly station for model airplanes. His own collection, layered with dust, covered the bookshelves where his mother had once kept her collection of murder mysteries. Those had been banished to the trash heap at the bottom of the basement stairs.”
― J.A. Jance, Fatal Error

“But Ali could see that Brenda’s problems went far beyond her simply being dumped by a boyfriend. Somehow, in the last few years of troubles, Brenda Riley had lost herself. That could have been me, Ali thought. If it hadn’t been for the people around me, I might have gone down the tubes the same way.”
― J.A. Jance, Fatal Error

“Ali had found that old acquaintances did have a way of doing that, of showing up on her doorstep and asking for a loan or an outright handout. They seemed to think that since she had money and they didn’t, she was obligated to give them some of hers.”
― J.A. Jance, Fatal Error

“excursion would be tomorrow, she needed to do some shopping today. First up”
― J.A. Jance, Fatal Error

“late”
― J.A. Jance, Fatal Error

“Tomorrow evening, about the time Mina was”
― J.A. Jance, Fatal Error