The Paradiso Files Quotes

“I suggest you listen to your attorney the next time he tells you not to talk.”
― Timothy M. Burke, The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer

“At what point did you begin to adapt well in prison?” “Actually, it was after I read Shakespeare’s Hamlet.”
― Timothy M. Burke, The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer

“Sometimes the DA asked a witness a question just to make the jury think about the topic. It didn’t matter what the current witness knew, or said. The question was a setup for a future witness to answer. When the jury heard the answer from the subsequent witness, they would feel they were solving the puzzle of the case piece by piece.”
― Timothy M. Burke, The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer

“thin man with short gray hair, he’d worn a bow tie and a long-sleeved shirt every day of his adult life. He wore bow ties because he liked them and thought them fashionable.”
― Timothy M. Burke, The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer

“I tell the truth 95 percent of the time.” “What about the other 5 percent of the time?” “Hey, I’m an honest man,”
― Timothy M. Burke, The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer

“Not unlike the ancient cities of Sparta and Athens, the Massachusetts State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were a house divided against itself. With separate missions and resources, each agency eyed the other as an unwanted stepchild in the world of cops and robbers. Neither could function without the other, and neither would admit its need for the other.”
― Timothy M. Burke, The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer

“Carmen took a breath and started to smile as he spoke.”
― Timothy M. Burke, The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer

“lucky he isn’t on the bottom of Boston Harbor with a pair of cement slippers and a log chain necklace,” Carmen stated matter-of-factly.”
― Timothy M. Burke, The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer

“There’s a kernel of truth in every lie.”
― Timothy M. Burke, The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer

“I will put one of these bullets in your head for the big dirt nap.”
― Timothy M. Burke, The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer

“She could taste the warmth of blood in her mouth.”
― Timothy M. Burke, The Paradiso Files: Boston's Unknown Serial Killer