Deadly Wishes Quotes

“PCs were standing in the corner. A man in a”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“dog”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Yes, it is, David. I didn’t realise it at the time, but it’s who you were. You were his puppy, his slave.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“But she was the most obvious person to have killed her husband. And a simple domestic meant there would be no sniffing into Jackson’s activities.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“It had started as a favour for a mate who’d been promoted and whose coat tails he could ride on. It ended with him lying to colleagues in the Canary investigation”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“No. Well, I’ve never discovered that the ACC was part of the Canary paedophile ring before”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“There’d been a full set of Agatha Christie novels on her shelves once. She’d devoured them as a young woman. She’d hoped Bryn would share her interest, being a policeman. But he’d turned his nose up at them, saying they were ridiculous. She’d stuffed them all in a box and put that in the guest wardrobe. Maybe they were still there.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“After her dad had died, Zoe’s life had changed. It had been like she was the mother, and Annette the child. And a very difficult one at that. It was only when Nicholas was born that she’d left. There was no way she was raising him in a house with a drunk.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Your evidence is an ancient love letter and a business card that a witness suffering from concussion claims she saw. That could belong to one of twelve men.” “I think it’s more than that.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“So. Trevor Hamm sends one of his own muscle to stage a break-in and make it look like his own stuff had been nicked.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Of course it wasn’t bloody Margaret. But your lot are always saying most murders are domestic. It can’t be hard to make that stick.” “I don’t like doing this to her.” “Once again, if your opinions were any use, you’d be asked for them. Just do your job.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Zoe eyed him. For someone who’d once been in a relationship with the woman, he was very happy to push her out of the balloon.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Jim had been absent from Nicholas’s life until her son had turned eleven, despite knowing she’d been bringing him up on her own all that time. He’d only told Shula about Nicholas’s existence when Nicholas was thirteen. And he’d kept it a secret from his colleagues.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“I was a prisoner. In this house. He didn’t let me out. I had no friends. I wasn’t even allowed to see your grandmother more than twice a year. Come to think of it, I should call her. Visit her. I can now.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“He didn’t hit her. Not from what I can tell. But emotional abuse is still abuse. The woman was a prisoner in her own home.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Paul Jackson’s a cold fish. Grown up bitter. Blames his mother. He couldn’t give me any solid reason why. He just hates her.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Inside, Margaret was veering from calm to hysterical today. After the children had gone, she’d spent an hour sitting at this table crying her eyes out. The thought that Paul blamed her filled her with horror. What kind of son thought his mother capable of a thing like that?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“She nodded. He’d lived in that study. The house had been empty for years.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“You think I’m dodgy. Tax evasion. Here.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“You’re an expert on home improvement now are you? Been watching Grand Designs?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Bryn and I were close friends for almost forty years. Of course I knew who his lawyer was.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Why should she care what David Randle thought about the way she looked? She was newly widowed. She was entitled to cry.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Winona said her mum would be better off. Without him. Who says that, when their dad’s just been murdered?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“We’re in deepest leafy Edgbaston, Connie. No buses here.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Zoe felt a flash of adrenaline course through her. She gripped the paper, then forced herself to relax her grip. Her breathing had picked up.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“I don’t know what I’m going to do without him.” For thirty years he’d been the centre of her world. Every waking moment had been focused on him. Supporting his career, raising his children. Pacifying him.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“They were intimate still, but it was something she suffered. And there was no kissing, no face-to-face contact.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“She’d screamed and tossed it to the floor, horrified. He would have shouted at her. Never touch the evidence. Never contaminate the crime scene. She’d sat next to him through enough TV crime shows, listening to him cursing the writers, muttering about detectives who stood in blood trails or grabbed door frames before putting their gloves on.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“didn’t get much chance to look at her, but it came off her like radiation. She was terrified of him.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes

“Margaret had spent thirty-four years in his orbit, her every move calculated with regard to his reaction. She’d learned what annoyed him, and what pacified him.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Wishes