Historical Fiction Mystery Quotes

“He laughed, then became serious once more. "Mary............"
The expression in his eyes set her heart pounding. "Yes?"
Twice he began to frame a sentence, and twice his voice seemed to fail him.
And she thought she understood. What could he possibly say to her now, when he was on the verge of leaving forever? Even something as simple as asking her to write to him carried a distinct sort of promis, the type of promise he was ten years and a half a world removed from being able to make.
She forced a polite smile and held out her hand. "Good luck, James."
Regret-and relief-flooded his eyes. he took her hand, cradling it for a long moment. "And to you."
It was foolish to linger. She slid her fingers from his grasp, turned, and began to walk away in the direction of the Academy. She'd gone about thirty paces when she heard his voice.
"Mary!"
She spun about. "What is it?"
"Stay out of wardrobes!"
She laughed, shook her head, and began to walk again. She was smiling this time.”
― y.s. lee, A Spy in the House

“That sounds like Russian interference to me.” “Agreed.”
They sat sipping their drinks.
“Should we even be drinking vodka?”
― Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

“Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff.”
― Nancy B. Brewer, Garnet

“These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady’s things—hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.”
― Gwenn Wright, Katherine's Journal

“I found out after reading quite a lot of it that it is not rated very high. He has a very descriptive way of writing but also lengthy. May not want to finish!!!!! This was his 1sr and only try ast Historical Fiction!”
― Wilkie Collins

“Elsa's mother no longer spoke to her of men and love, but of duty and fate and accepting one’s burden. As far as Elsa could tell, if love really was the inherited female domain, then women were saddled with the biggest burden of all. It was pressing down upon them, the way the sea pressed down upon the creatures of the deep.”
― Kathy-Diane Leveille, Standing in the Whale's Jaw

“Rooks have clustered on either side of the long road. It is as if they line a grand parade route for our passage. Their black feathers are stark as soot against the white road and the snow. They stab at the ground with their strange bare bills and gray unfeathered faces. The birds are like rough-edged black stones on a string around this stripped cold neck of road. The old books tell us rooks bring the virtuous dead to heaven’s gate.”
― Ned Hayes, Sinful Folk

“I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then.”
― Robert Stephen Parry, The Hours Before

“Inside the heart of ancient Damascus lies the secret to the origins of mankind.”
― Amerigo Consta, CODEX: The Origin of Thought

“To Beth, there isn’t an illness or sour mood that cats or a walk in the garden can’t heal.”
― Marina Hill, Little Writer

“@The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.”
― Maureen Jennings

“Anna Blanc was the most beautiful woman ever to barrel down Long Beach Strand with the severed head of a Chinese man.”
― Jennifer Kincheloe, The Woman in the Camphor Trunk

“I couldn’t have told you the difference between a, Chanel, and a cabbage, and quite often went out wearing odd shoes.
'The Riviera Affair.”
― J. New

“He pulled her a little closer and leaned his head toward her ear. 'I have traveled the world over these last months, but nowhere, on no continent, in no country, have I ever seen anyone half so beautiful as you.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Lady Unrivaled

“I just can’t see a future, and I believe that might mean it’s because this is all it will be.”
― Shari J. Ryan, The Doctor's Daughter

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― Rita Gard Seedorf, Letters From Brackham Wood: A Moira Edwards Mystery

“What was justice, after all, but a particular outcome?”
― Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist

“He stopped in a seedy alley in Holborn where he jumped down from the carriage, held a muttered conference with a dirty, one-eyed old woman, and climbed back in, his arms full of grubby cloth.
She wrinkled her nose. "Phew. What the devil is all that?"
"It's a dress."
"Oh, no. I'm not putting that on. It stinks of last week's washing up."
"It smells of the people.”
― Y.S. Lee, A Spy in the House

“She and I are as far apart as the stars in the sky and the soles of my feet." Detective Sean Ryan ~Deception on Sable Hill by Shelley Gray”
― Shelley Gray

“The engorged moon hung full and low in the sky like a yellow skull. Misshapen clouds stretched across the floating orb with elongated hands and bony fingers grasping. As they neared the docks, the gas lamps grew fewer and the streets gloomier. The cobblestones blackened as they passed the deserted brickfields. Bottle-shaped kilns spat their outrage with orange tongues of fire into the cooling air. Mangy dogs snarled in hunger and wandering sea-gulls screamed their displeasure at the hansom’s passage.”
― Brian S. Ference, The Wolf of Dorian Gray: A Werewolf Spawned by the Evil of Man

“Anna shouted, “Help me! I’m naked and covered in honey!” Wolf slid across the kitchen tile, heading for the basement stairs like Hermes in a footrace. “Hold tight, honeybun! Here I come!” Joe Singer charged behind him with the lantern. Wolf was not going to see Anna in her honey, even if he had to shoot him. This was not police work. This was personal. He hurled himself at Wolf. “She’s my girl!” “Not anymore!”
― Jennifer Kincheloe, The Woman in the Camphor Trunk

“Any conclusion you reach is only as good as the information you bring to it.”
― Bettyanne Twigg, The Convenient

“Leonardo da Vinci travels to the Holy Land to uncover a secret that has shaped the fate of all civilizations.”
― Amerigo Consta, CODEX: The Origin of Thought

“What connects two Roman emperors, Attila the Hun, and Leonardo da Vinci? The Constantine Order.”
― Amerigo Consta, CODEX: The Origin of Thought

“No, YOU were right. I'm impulsive. I always have been.'

He tossed her hat to the ground and rested his forehead on hers. 'And as much as that drives me mad with fear, I love it about you--that where I am cautious, you are bold; that where I think and never act, you charge ahead.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Lost Heiress

“More than treasures, there are corpses that lie beneath the parched earth.”
― Heena Singhal, Songs of the Reed

“I did not steal because I needed to. I stole to feed my insatiable ambition for influence.”
― Chikodi Anunobi, The Thief and the Patriot

“My stories are conversations between characters influenced by the situations in which they find themselves. I start the conversation and then let the characters take over. I simply listen and record what they say,”
― Dr. Peter Stephenson

“Memories have huge staying power, and I feel without them, life would lack color and vibrancy.
~ Sofia Rossi in "Anna's Shadow".”
― Ingrid McCarthy, Anna's Shadow: A dramatic and page-turning novel: part mystery, part WW II story, part romance

“It is a burden to love anyone. And it is a burden to be loved. Stop running from it.”
― Amy Harmon, The Unknown Beloved