One in Custody Quotes

“Boys are more likely to snap. You can see it, can’t you?”
― Jane Casey, One in Custody

“Prosecuting young Aaron isn’t going to be easy. They’ll have to treat Sheila as a hostile witness, because she won’t give evidence against him. It’s a gift to his defence.’ ‘The prosecution will just have to cope.”
― Jane Casey, One in Custody

“Eye contact. She wasn’t convinced, but she was listening.”
― Jane Casey, One in Custody

“Who killed him, Sheila? Who stabbed Harry?”
― Jane Casey, One in Custody

“I knelt gingerly on the dry half of the mattress and put my gloved palm just above the bloody smear Sheila had left. I put my right hand up to block Derwent’s swinging arm, and I leaned over where the body had been.”
― Jane Casey, One in Custody

“There was blood in the sink and the bath, all photographed and swabbed by the crime-scene techs, so I didn’t have to worry too much about where I was standing or what I was touching. That didn’t necessarily mean I wanted to touch anything. I stood in the middle of the small, windowless space, smelling mildew and sour towels and wondering what I was missing. ‘What do you make of this?”
― Jane Casey, One in Custody