The Bone Box Quotes

“Highest Praise for Gregg Olsen Closer Than Blood “Olsen, a skilled true-crime writer and novelist, brings back Kitsap County sheriff’s detective Kendall Stark in his fleet-footed novel Closer than Blood.” —The Seattle Times “A cat-and-mouse hunt for an individual who is motivated in equal parts by bloodlust and greed... .”
― Gregg Olsen, The Bone Box

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― Gregg Olsen, The Bone Box

“If this is their idea of making things even, they’re working with the wrong set of scales.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Bone Box

“It had been a quiet day in the Kitsap County Morgue, which meant it had been a good day. No one who worked there ever cursed their jobs because there was “nothing to do.” An empty chiller meant a day without carrying the hurt of someone else’s loss. A child. A wife. Even a friend.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Bone Box

“Summer weather along the Pacific is governed by a kind of strange roulette wheel, one that makes anyone with concrete plans on the all-but-certain losing end of things. Not until the moment one ventures outside to experience the world of nature is it apparent if it is sunny or rainy or a mix of both. Its unpredictability is the only sure thing.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Bone Box

“There were a lot of reasons why visiting those files was unnerving. But one above the others niggled at her subconscious. Guilt is like a dripping faucet that can never be tightened or turned off. Even when the guilt is undeserved. More so, rightly, when it is.”
― Gregg Olsen, The Bone Box