CSI Reilly Steel Boxset Quotes

“Reilly usually played classical music – Bach for his calm, methodical style, Mozart when she needed something to lift her mood, or Beethoven to stir her emotions and keep her engaged if she was working late into the night.”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset

“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”’ ‘That’s not Dante?’ Reuben grinned. ‘John F. Kennedy, actually.”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset

“We spend our whole lives avoiding death, eating the right foods, not smoking, going to the gym, kidding ourselves that we will live forever – but what is it like when we suddenly know, with absolute certainty, that we are about to die?”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset

“bloody end of a milk bottle underneath”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset

“Well, the aunt of course,”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset

“She was good at languages and spoke near-perfect Spanish, the primary language in many of the southern states back home.”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset

“Getting out, they closed the car doors as quietly as possible, then crept across the muddy yard, Kennedy’s torch showing up the maze of puddles.”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset

“that he’d been quadriplegic”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset

“Skunk? Was there skunk in Ireland? Taking out an evidence bag, she tried to pinpoint the area it seemed strongest, but it was impossible to tell. In any case, she swabbed a small area from the wall and then the ground, bagged them, and in addition picked up a sample of grit from the same area on the floor. The tower, with its two battered old wooden slat windows, was completely empty, save for some pigeon droppings. As birds didn’t urinate, Reilly already knew the foul smell definitely wasn’t coming from them. Moving tighter into the wall, she began stepping in concentric circles inwards, her gaze scanning the ground area. Then, her keen eye noticed some tiny bluish dots that were slightly incongruous amongst the grit and the droppings. She pulled out her tweezers and, bending low, carefully lifted one up for inspection. With some idea of what it was, she held it to her nose, sniffed, and removed all doubt. Rubber. Reilly’s mind raced, wondering if this was of any significance. Had the killer dropped it? Probably not. Whoever had hoisted that poor man up into the tree and slashed open his torso surely wouldn’t have then gone to the trouble of coming all the way up here to watch him die. Or would he? She craned her neck, looking upwards into the gloom, then made her way to the window. As she did, she let out a breath. There, framed perfectly in the opening as if it were a painting, was the hawthorn tree, the misfortunate victim dramatically hanging front and center. Leaving little doubt in Reilly’s mind that such positioning was completely intentional. It took a while, but eventually the local police managed to arrange for a mobile elevating platform to be sent to the site from the nearest town. The ME, having repositioned the man’s innards as best she could, wrapped the mutilated body in the tarpaulin and, with the platform operator’s assistance, accompanied it down to the ground, where she could examine it more closely. Reilly took a lint roller from her bag, took samples from the body and then concentrated her efforts around the perimeter of the tree, walking in concentric circles around the base amongst the humongous roots poking through the soil. Granted the victim was not a heavy man, but even so, it”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset

“wearily, annoyed by her intrusion into”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset

“was typical. For reasons he couldn’t quite fathom, Father Byrne felt compelled to investigate what was making the magpies so excitable. He had plenty of time; it was just before eight, and worshippers wouldn’t begin to arrive for another half-hour or so.”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset

“apartment, stole your ID, could have bloody”
― Casey Hill, CSI Reilly Steel Boxset