Twisted Lies Quotes

“my experience, a class is filled with three types of kids on the social spectrum: the introverts, who don’t want to interact at all; the extroverts, who want all the attention; and the ones in the middle that would like to interact more but hold themselves back. Those are the ones you aim for, the”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“She knew she had poked a bear and that bear had retaliated last night at the traffic lights. But she also knew she wouldn’t be bullied into backing off.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Stone, she can only write what she sees, so I have total trust in you to demonstrate that we are driven, compassionate and professional.’ ‘You do?’ Kim asked, surprised.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“First of all, I want to say a huge thank you for choosing to read Twisted Lies, the fourteenth instalment of the Kim Stone series, and to many of you for sticking with Kim Stone and her team since the very beginning.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“It was fair to say the two of them were never going to be friends, but Kim couldn’t ignore a grudging respect for the woman who worked as part of no team doing a job that she”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Kim knew there was no room for him to offer an insanity plea. Each crime had taken intricate and diligent planning and faultless execution.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Kim ignored the fear rising in her stomach. The man just feet away from her had murdered four people in the most horrific ways imaginable.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“There was no doubt that Jacob knew they were on to him, so why come back at all? What had prompted”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Good old police detective work had uncovered solid links between the teaching assistant and stolen information from Amelia Dixon. But in her mind the evidence wasn’t strong enough. All they could prove was that Jacob and Amelia had corresponded by email and that”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“You have no idea of the sacrifice and hard work it’s taken for me to construct another life, to make people look only at the parts of me I want them to see.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“He had a point. The change in her was subtle, but Kim had learned to study micro expressions and notice things in people’s behaviour. And there was something that Leanne didn’t want them to know, Kim thought as Bryant pulled into Cedarwood Drive.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Frost felt her hackles rise at the casual cruelty the man had employed to keep Trisha under control.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Given the secretive nature of your work and the vulnerability of your witnesses, I would have thought that contact between protection officers was strictly forbidden. So how do you know she struggled? Did you keep in touch?”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“You stand out if you’re too cautious. People’s favourite subject is normally themselves, so if you’ve known someone for a while and still divulged nothing it looks odd. No wedding photos, no albums, no social media history and that’s especially problematic with adolescents who struggle to remember the constructed history at the best of times.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“They get their back story wrong. They tell the same person something different because they can’t remember what they said the first time.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Careful, Frost, you’re talking like an investigator,’ Kim warned. ‘It’s what we all want. The idea of that bastard walking free sickens every officer who came into contact with him or the case. You’ve done more than anyone outside of the force. You’ve given the victim an identity,’ Kim said. ‘And you’ve paid personally for it.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Kim thought about all the reasons she did it. The fact that the process took her back to the happiest three years of her life, when she’d spent hours with her foster father, Keith, while Erica had cooked in the next room, listening to her collection of classical music.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“You’re still weird,’ Frost said. ‘And you’re still a bitch. Both facts are unlikely to change just cos you’re kipping in my spare room for the night,’ Kim said.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“No, Kim expected not. This had nothing to do with personal possessions; contrary to popular belief, burglars left barely any mess. They got in, took what they wanted and got out as quickly as possible. As a PC she’d attended burglaries where the victim had remained unaware for hours.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Their killer knew where every person in the witness protection scheme lived.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Kim tried not to react. Dean had been a man who had lived on the wrong side of the law for years but had used that same resource for his own benefit when it had suited him, and then had the gall to throw it away when it hadn’t panned out how he’d expected.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“There was no doubt the system was broken.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“She’d wanted to remind people that there was a victim, a woman who had suffered horrifically at this man’s hand, but the injustice of the situation was growing more ferocious inside her.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Like many others, she’d been bullied mercilessly all her school life because of her deformity, and she had taken it. She had allowed the bullies to intimidate and frighten her. She had taken it silently and cried alone. She had despised herself”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“dislike to the woman’s superior and cold attitude when she’d thought Leanne was Diane’s sister, but since finding out she was a police officer, that dislike was now drenched in resentment. You didn’t do things to hamper people who were fighting on the same side. Leanne was the player who put a ball in the back of her own net.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“But it was clear they were watching everything, and she must have been setting off their Google Alerts like a brass band over the last couple of days.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“I treat people for many different reasons: depression; anxiety; stress; behavioural problems; phobias. You name it, I’ve treated it. Some cases are deeper than others. Some require years of therapy, and for others it’s a problem of adjusting to a new situation.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Once started, Ariane had talked openly about the abuse and her feelings. She had said that she couldn’t see how she would ever trust a man again. That she would always swallow her own opinions for fear she might be physically attacked for answering back. Between the tears, she had explained how she had spent years trying to understand what it was within her that had given him the right to treat her in such a way.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“You really think that was him?’ Ariane took another deep breath. ‘If you have to even ask me that question, you really have no idea who you’re dealing with.”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies

“Only that they were a bit quiet and didn’t invite conversation. They seemed like a decent family. To my knowledge they weren’t doing or selling drugs, fencing stolen goods or conducting any other kind of criminal activity. They had no wild parties, caused no complaints,”
― Angela Marsons, Twisted Lies