Criminal Motive Quotes

Another murder I committed made the front page.

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.