Field of Blood Quotes

“Don't go on holiday to Blackpool, it's fucking horrible there.”
― Denise Mina, Field of Blood

“Ah, the meek. Playing the long game. Sneaky bastards.”
― Denise Mina, Field of Blood

“The policemen had clearly been there all morning: four big white tea mugs from the canteen were drained and drip-stained, red-and-gold wrappers from caramel log biscuits were folded into interesting shapes on one side of the table, rolled up into tight little balls on the other.”
― Denise Mina, Field of Blood

“When I first came here copyboys wouldn't have been allowed to eat in the canteen with journalists." A smile twitched at one corner of his mouth. "I was a copyboy once, at the Lanarkshire Gazette. Can ye believe that?"

He left a space for her to respond, so she did.

"Can I believe that a man as important as you was ever a copyboy or that Lanarkshire has its own gazette?”
― Denise Mina, Field of Blood

“The officers looked at her for a telling moment. Only someone from a Republican background would use a loaded word like “internment.” She knew it was still rare for a Catholic to work in a middle-class profession like the papers, or even the police. Paddy was a new generation and had never knowingly suffered anti-Catholic discrimination, but she still enjoyed the status of political underdog. She squared her shoulders and looked Patterson straight in the eye, raising an eyebrow, embarrassing him into continuing. “So you went out in the radio car,” he said, four hundred years of bloodshed lying unacknowledged between them.”
― Denise Mina, Field Of Blood