Murder in the Family Quotes

“Christ, death by Comic Sans.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“And as for the age difference, I just kept reminding people what Joan Collins said when she was asked about the young guy she married about the same time – ‘if he dies, he dies’.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“street’, is”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“blame myself – I should have put all this together long before. All the signs were there – all those photos of him looking lost and unhappy, the disruptive behaviour, the ‘daydreaming’, even the damn cake”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Don’t make me fucking laugh – back then the Met couldn’t find their arses with both hands and a map. She ran rings round those stupid tossers. And in any case, later on, after Mum died, I made it ‘worth her while’.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“suddenly gets a bad case of late-onset moral responsibility?”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“So Maura thought Amelie’d done it, and Amelie thought Maura had, but neither of them said anything so they never found out they’d both got it wrong. It’s like something out of bloody Thomas Hardy—”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Look, we just didn’t like him, OK? End of. Not everything is sodding child abuse, you know. Not that you’d know it from all the TV crime shit.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Because in a few short months we’ve managed to crack a case that had defeated the Metropolitan Police for two decades.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“I was just a kid – a black kid who’d grown up on a council estate in Ladbroke Grove. I didn’t need any more trouble from the law. And I didn’t want to cause a shitload of hassle for Maura either.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“She called him ‘inappropriate’, did she? And why exactly was that? Because he was black, like you? No, you got a free pass because you’re a fucking coconut and a rich bastard, but Maura’s bloke, he was just poor black trash? The shit under your fucking Prada shoes? Is that what you’re saying?”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“So don’t come the outraged virgin with me, matey. You’re absolutely fine with ‘exploiting your family’, just as long as you’re the one who’s doing it.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“So you thought you’d stack the cards in your favour, is that it? Bring in a couple of people who appeared to be objective experts like the rest of us, but in reality not only had a great deal of prior knowledge, but actual skin in the game.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“agree – harbour the size of bloody Sydney”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“And I think we’d all agree that anyone who loved her might well want to find the person responsible for that scam and make him pay – in every sense of the word. A brother, for instance. Especially a brother with access to all the resources of the Metropolitan Police.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Now we know where all those cliff-hangers of yours came from. Not hard to drop a bombshell if you’ve a whole arsenal of them primed and ready to go.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“What if the kid had quite a disadvantaged upbringing – it has to be possible if it was inner-city Birmingham, right?”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“to put themselves in line to inherit their property, including any life insurance. Which they’ve often taken out without the wife’s knowledge. I prosecuted a case exactly like that only last year.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Conmen like that tend to fleece women and move on, don’t they? You don’t need to bother with the legals to achieve that.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“She never came to the house so I don’t know how come she’s so fucking knowledgeable all of a sudden.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“So no cliff-hanger to end with, Bill? You’re losing your touch.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“think the real Eric Fulton died in New York. Died, or maybe got killed. Remember, the city was still dealing with the AIDS crisis as late as the mid ’90s, and he would definitely have been in a high-risk group.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“the guy who married Caroline Howard wasn’t ‘Eric Fulton’ any more than he was ‘Luke Ryder’? That’s exactly what I’m saying. We’re dealing with a serial imposter. ALAN CANNING Hold on, hold on, one step at a time. The real Eric Fulton, from Alabama – the one you were just talking to those people about – he moved to New York when?”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“That he didn’t have to be ashamed of who he was because God made him that way and loved him regardless. He just needed to surround himself with other folks who would think the way I did.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Eric had never seemed like the adventurous type. I was surprised he even had a passport. Most folks here don’t.”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Seeing as you’ve got such a bob on y’self, big tyma, let’s me and you hop on a buzz and find somewhere we can chobble some bostin fettle and a couple or three tots. What d’ya say?”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“much so, that immediately the bomb went off, and even though he himself was injured, he saw it not as a disaster, but a golden opportunity”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“You have got to be kidding me. Thirty-four? All the shit she went through about the age difference and all the time they’re basically the same fucking age?”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“Yet all too often the gruesome details of someone else’s pain are offered up simply for the purposes of entertainment”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family

“The country was still recovering from a savage civil war, the government was weak to non-existent in some parts of the country, and there were areas where terrorist groups like Hezbollah and HAMAS operated pretty much with impunity. As Luke was to find out. He turns and puts up a press”
― Cara Hunter, Murder in the Family