Suspense Mystery Quotes

Suspense Mystery Quote of the day

Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.

I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

Black rose, black roseWho’s gonna be your only one?Who’s gonna keep you safe and warm?Run, run my baby black roseI’m gonna find you home.

Why did you shoot him?""You weren't around, " I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.

So many people want to, they need to villainize others. They need a clear bad guy who suffers the consequences of violating their morality. But isn’t this the essence of intolerance?

When your ship comes in, don't be in the bathroom with your pants around your ankles." quoted by Frank McNichols, father of Rose McNichols in A Nose for Hanky Panky, a Granite Cove Mystery

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.

Find my weak points, but more importantly, find yours.

Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.

Really? Assaulting an officer? That’s a new one for you.” ~ FBI Special Agent Clive Poole to Maggie Mae Castro

And to think I could be at home cleaning the cat box, " Esther Charlemagne said. "Watching for a Peeping Tom is so much better."~ Chapter 2 The Night Shadow by Cheri Vause

Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?

I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.

The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.

Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.

The love of money can do wicked things to one's soul.

She was the kind of woman a person could die over or kill over.

Great. This girl was going to seriously mess with my ability to stay on parole. ~Maggie Mae Castro

We're Killers On The Keyboard

She would not have another man push her aside like some appetizer, there to wet his whistle only to be left once the main dish arrived.No more. She pushed her thumb into his throat a little harder.

Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.