Deadly Choices Quotes

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― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“She twisted her lips and gritted her teeth. Today she’d chased after a terrified child, apprehended a deranged kidnapper, and dealt with the return of DI Frank Dawson. None of that was a match for trying to be polite to her mum.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“Zoe, will you just take praise when it’s offered to you? Yes, your team made a significant contribution. But they’re your team. They work hard for you. Well done.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“Ian Osman’s daughter is missing, Stuart. We think Hamm’s got her, and he’s going to give her to some filthy fucker who deserves to be in prison. If you know where Hamm is, you can help us stop that.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“Zoe wondered what kind of woman stuck around after her husband was arrested for abusing children.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“He works in CID,” said Carl. “He could have been tampering with evidence, planting false leads, getting information to Hamm and his associates. Anything really.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“My theory right now is that Hamm has something on Ian, and Maddy’s caught in the crossfire. He’s given them his daughter to get himself off the hook. Or they’ve taken her to teach him a lesson.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“Trevor Hamm had supplied kids to the Canary paedophile network. They hadn’t managed to prove it yet, but she knew”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“Talk to Connie. Get her to find out if they’re making any money out of this. Have they done a deal with the papers or anything like that.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“If it wasn’t him it was her, coming in late from work. If they wanted to have children, they needed to spend more time together.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“And he went? Just like that, with one kiddie missing and the other one needing his parents?”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“Zoe stared at the phone in its cradle. She was torn between concern for her mum and resentment at the way she’d been treated as a child. Annette Finch hadn’t earned the right to be cared for by her adult daughter. Far from”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“Enemies? People don’t make enemies. So melodramatic.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“She liked being in her Mini, it made her feel safe. Connected her to her dad, who’d built Minis at the Longbridge car plant.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“Barbara Wilson was sharing posts from far-right pages. The kind of pages that hid their racism behind gung-ho patriotism. She grimaced.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“In possible abduction cases, the obvious suspects were always the parents. Seeing their reactions, and the dynamics between them, would help establish their honesty. And as the dad hadn’t been at Cadbury World, there was no issue with cross-contamination of witness statements”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“I’ve learned that the system’s broken. Justice goes to the man with the most expensive legal team.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“For money laundering. The irony that they’d been convicted by the evidence she’d uncovered wasn’t lost on her. But Jory Shand and Howard Petersen belonged in jail. Cowering in the nonces’ wing of a high security facility, as terrified as those kids had been.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices

“This was supposed to be fun. Ian had only needed to pop into work, they were going to have a nice day as a family. And here she was, shouting at her kids and making it miserable for all of them.”
― Rachel McLean, Deadly Choices