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The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13) QUOTES

The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13) QUOTES

1 " was a lean, unsmiling man, a dusting of short gray hair on his head. "

― Jeffery Deaver , The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13)

2 " A serial killer is a rare and specific criminal profile. In males the motives’re sexual in nature usually, or nonsexual sadism. And while there’s ritualistic behavior, that’s limited in most cases to binding or arranging the victims in certain ways or leaving fetishes at the scene or taking trophies, postmortem. The behavior doesn’t rise to the Composer’s level of elaborate staging—the videos, the noose, the music. He’s a multiple perpetrator.” Silence "

― Jeffery Deaver , The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13)

3 " This that you are proposing, it is irregular and we are not people who are well with irregularness.” At "

― Jeffery Deaver , The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13)

4 " Prewar.” It occurred to Rhyme that in Italy the phrase would, in most people’s minds, refer to the Second World War. Unlike America for the past eighty years, Italy had not regularly dotted the globe with tanks and infantry and drones. Thom "

― Jeffery Deaver , The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13)

5 " the Nero Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Readers Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award. "

― Jeffery Deaver , The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13)

6 " Solitude Creek, a Kathryn Dance thriller "

― Jeffery Deaver , The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13)

7 " Dellray had advanced degrees—including psychology and philosophy (yes, one could philosophize as a hobby)—but he somehow fell naturally into a street patois of his own making, not gang-talk, not African American Vernacular English. It was, like his clothing and his penchant for reading Heidegger and Kant to his children, pure Dellray. "

― Jeffery Deaver , The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13)

8 " Rhyme said, “‘Game’ is a noun. I don’t accept it as a verb. But I will concede that many people use it. The Jargonites, I call them. "

― Jeffery Deaver , The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13)

9 " Charlotte McKenzie was present. No longer saddled with her fake role as a diplo, she was wearing black slacks, a dark blouse and a supple leather jacket. She was still grandmotherly—but she was a grandmother who might practice tae kwon do and enjoy white-water rafting, if not big-game hunting. "

― Jeffery Deaver , The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme, #13)