48 Quotes by Fiona Barton

I remember looking at him lying there in a small pool of blood and thinking ’oh well, that’s the end of his nonsense.

Everyone wants to know the truth. Except those who don’t. Those who stand to lose by it.

Funny how she keeps using my name. Like a nurse. Or a con man.

People say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. They say that when you been through something terrible... But it doesn’t. It breaks your bones, leaving everything splintered and held together with grubby bandages and yellowing sticky tape. Creaking along the fault lines, Fragile and exhausting to hold together. Sometimes you wish it had killed you.

But Bella’s disappearance brought us together. Made us a real couple. I always said we needed a child.

It is a sad truth that apprenticeships fell out of favour in Britain in the Seventies and Eighties, when the manufacturing industries shed jobs and the construction industry went into decline.

It's a wonderful experience to be reading a story and think you've got things all figured out, and then suddenly, it all goes upside-down on you.

Barbecue is to North Carolina as the hot dog is to New York.

I can't think whether I've actually interviewed the widow of a crime suspect. Obviously, I've interviewed members of the families of people who've been accused of things.