Cold Granite Quotes

“The day was dark as a lawyer's soul.”
― Stuart MacBride, Cold Granite

“Where Insch was bald, Steel looked as if someone had sellotaped a Cairn terrier to her head. Rumour had it she was only forty-two, but she looked a lot older. Years of chain smoking had left her face looking like a holiday home for lines and wrinkles.”
― Stuart MacBride, Cold Granite

“Miserable people with miserable lives, buggering about in a miserable, pointless parade of misery.”
― Stuart MacBride, Cold Granite

“Mr Cameron Anderson was in his mid-twenties and hailed from Edinburgh: which explained why he had a first name like Cameron.”
― Stuart MacBride, Cold Granite

“You know: the old plastic-bag-up-the-fanny routine. Do it when they’re on the blob and the sniffer dogs don’t smell it. An’ even if they do smell some-thin’ everyone’s too fuckin’ embarrassed to say anything.”
― Stuart MacBride, Cold Granite

“shop”
― Stuart MacBride, Cold Granite

“he met this woman at the supermarket where he works.’ She sighed. ‘But he doesn’t really love her! He’s just punishing me … I mean, she’s got no breasts.”
― Stuart MacBride, Cold Granite

“guarded by a young PC reading a book. With a guilty jump he stuffed the Ian Rankin under his seat.”
― Stuart MacBride, Cold Granite