Death in the Black Isle Quotes

“Serious money was the fairy godmother who could grant all your wishes”
― Aline Templeton, Deadfall

“His voice trailed off, but she knew what it was that he hadn't said. He had told himself it was just to give her a fright but if it had killed her, he wouldn't have shed too many tears. Callous creatures, children”
― Aline Templeton, Deadfall

“She'd always had a tendency to look for the motive ahead of the facts, but this time she'd more or less got the boss's blessing to do so. It was an old principle that if you wanted to understand why someone did something, you should look at the consequences, and she did that now”
― Aline Templeton, Deadfall

“Criminal defence lawyers and police officers have an adversarial relationship and it's bone deep on either side not to give succour to the 'enemy' - and sometimes the inverted commas aren't even there”
― Aline Templeton, Deadfall

“Life had always just been what happened to him, without his ever getting fully engaged”
― Aline Templeton, Deadfall

“Michael Erskine had appeared in Muriel's office after his meeting with Oriole, a tall, confident man in his early forties, with the arrogance she'd often noticed in academics when dealing with lesser mortals”
― Aline Templeton, Deadfall