The Waiting Quotes

“John was John Lewin, the deputy DA assigned to prosecute cases from the Open-Unsolved Unit. In the news coverage that solved cold cases often brought, the local media had dubbed him “the King of Cold Cases.”
― Michael Connelly, The Waiting

“uncovered such a scheme in vetting any of her volunteers, the rule was one reason Colleen Hatteras had spent so much time in the office at Ahmanson. Her work for the unit was entirely online. She could not transfer her IGG work from her office desktop to her home computer without the risk of being discovered and dismissed from the unit she so loved. So she spent many more hours than any other volunteer at her station in the office. Still in a fog of confusion, grief, and guilt, Ballard entered the empty Open-Unsolved Unit and went directly to Colleen’s workstation and desktop. Six months earlier Hatteras had taken a week off to drive one of her daughters to school. While she was gone, Ballard had needed to print out a genealogical tree that was part of a charging package she was submitting to Carol Plovc at the DA’s office. The only way to get the document was to get into Hatteras’s computer. Ballard had called Hatteras, who had revealed her password without hesitation: the names of her two daughters spelled backward. Ballard now had to hope that Hatteras had not changed it upon her return or in the months since. She opened the password portal on her desktop and typed in eiggaMeitaK, hoping she remembered it correctly. The password went through and Ballard was in. The last thing Colleen had said to Ballard before leaving the office yesterday was that she would finish an email, send it, then go. Ballard wanted to know what that email had been and if there were any other messages to or from her that could have a bearing on her murder. Once in Hatteras’s email account, Ballard pulled up the Sent folder and saw that the last message sent from Colleen’s office desktop was to Colleen’s personal email account. Ballard opened the message and found an almost word-for-word transcript of the beginning of Ballard’s phone conversation with Victor Best in Hawaii. Ballard realized that”
― Michael Connelly, The Waiting

“window”
― Michael Connelly, The Waiting

“She knew that the sovereigns fit in nicely with most of the other extremist groups nowadays, from Aryan Nation to the Oath Keepers to the grab bag of other groups that had charged the Capitol three years before. That didn’t quite fit with Malibu, but beyond Malibu was Ventura County and towns like Oxnard and Fillmore, where such groups were known to have roots.”
― Michael Connelly, The Waiting

“empath”
― Michael Connelly, The Waiting

“Biding my time till it’s time,”
― Michael Connelly, The Waiting

“The newest member of the unit was Anders Persson, who was even more of an outlier than Hatteras. His law enforcement experience was limited to volunteer work with the Swedish Police Authority in his hometown of Stockholm. But Persson, just twenty-eight years old, now ran an L.A.-based software company by night and assisted the OU team by day. While Hatteras was the expert in hunting down family histories and genetic connections, Persson was the go-to guy when it came to navigating the internet and finding people who had gone to extreme lengths to avoid being found. Together, Hatteras and Persson were a formidable team that complemented those on the unit with real police and investigative experience.”
― Michael Connelly, The Waiting

“weapons. There were rifles, handguns, boxes of”
― Michael Connelly, The Waiting

“demurred.”
― Michael Connelly, The Waiting