Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
Meeting forensic patients for the first time could occasionally be an unnerving experience. They often came across as mild and gentle people, but the details of the crimes were harrowing in the extreme.
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens.
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for decades after the verdict has been rendered.
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