33 Quotes by Ann Cleeves

Oh, I’m interested in everything, Joe. That’s why I’m a bloody brilliant detective.’ She gave him her widest smile. ‘That’s why I’m in charge and you’re sitting there, doing as you’re told.

I don’t understand how anyone can write if they don’t use public transport. I earwig all the time.

His thoughts were wheeling and dipping like the gulls over the estuary, groping for an explanation, feeling at last he was making sense of what lie behind Walden’s death...

She’d learned that it was important when you were dealing with professional do-gooders to keep calm. Otherwise they judged you. Wrote things like anger-management problems in their reports.

The ritual of tea, Willow thought, is like a liturgy itself, comforting because it’s so familiar.

Vera thought for a moment that she might have found a man if she’d scrubbed up a bit better, then decided that no man was worth the time it took to plaster stuff on your face in the morning, when you could have an extra cup of tea instead.

Vera watched him walk to his car, the champagne in one hand, the flowers in the other. Thought that if she’d been married to someone like Joe Ashworth, she’d be so bored she’d commit murder herself.

Anna opened her eyes and saw a pair of hands, streaked and shiny with blood. No face.

Was it only possible truly to enjoy something if you knew there was a danger that it might be taken away?