Murder in the Pacific Quotes

“Jeffrey didn’t have long to live.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“George looked around the office. Five dirty and chipped desks, one with a missing leg held upright with a stack of out-of-date telephone books, a two-year out-of-date calendar, a filing cabinet overflowing with case notes, four chairs all with tears in the fabric, and a printer that hadn’t worked since, well since ever – having no print cartridges was obviously an issue.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“I think if people were taking tigers for joyrides, we wouldn’t be hearing about it on the radio!”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“George looked out to the harbor where she had floated in. He looked at the beach she had washed up on. He looked around at the rubbish that had been washed up as well.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“It took him about 20 minutes under the shower to start getting some self-respect back. It would have taken a bit less if he had a decent showerhead and decent water pressure.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“Everything washes up here’, she said. ‘Even dead bodies”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“She’s a good girl’, pleaded Ruth. ‘Please bring her home.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“Twenty-five minutes later, Port Vila’s most decrepit taxivan pulled up outside the $28 million Convention Centre. Every panel was dinted, most windows were held in place with plumbers’ tape, the engine burnt more oil than petrol, and only one windscreen wiper worked.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“The Convention Centre had caused great consternation in Vanuatu for many years. All of this was the result that Vanuatu didn’t want it, Vanuatu didn’t ask for it, and Vanuatu couldn’t afford it. That hadn’t stopped the generosity of the Chinese Government insisting on building it with very favourable financial terms.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“George lay on his bed, wide awake despite the early hour, imagining over and over Jeffrey’s demise. He didn’t feel guilty. Jeffrey was going to die anyway, so what was the big deal if it was today and not in a few more years?”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“we found a body. A dead body.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point

“These vans were dented, had cracked windscreens, bald tires, holey exhaust pipes and blew more smoke than the volcano Mount Yasur on the island of Tanna. There were no seatbelts, there was no air-conditioning, and there was certainly no realistic expectation that the driver had any sort of license.”
― Matt Francis, Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point