22 Quotes by Ashley Weaver

I stared at the list, as though willing the murderer's name to appear in red letters before my eyes. I felt I was so close to discovering something, if only I could find the right link, some bit of information that would point in the right direction. At least, that was how it worked in the mystery novels.

You haven't forgotten that we're having dinner with the Belangers this evening?" I asked."Of course not," he said. "I am hoping that one of them will let slip that they killed their father and we can lay the thing to rest.

Darling, don't you think we've played detective long enough tonight?" Milo protested as we got out of the cab.

Well, one can't stop love, can one?

Love makes a mess of things, doesn't it?' he said, as though he was speaking to himself. 'People are always falling in love with the wrong people. It happens over and over. It would be so much simpler if . . .

Poor darling," he said, shaking his head, "you're not cold-hearted enough to be a detective. You only want the disagreeable people to be guilty, and I'm afraid you'll find that life isn't like that.

In the novels, it always seemed best to keep the suspect talking. Inevitably, help would arrive. I really held out no hope for such an opportune occurrence, but it seemed the best course of action would be to distract her until I could determine what to do.

When motives are prettily packaged they are much more easily obscured.

So what happened . . . with Rupert?' I asked at last. I was genuinely curious. If I were to be murdered tonight by a deranged killer, I should hate to do it with questions still lingering in my mind.