{"quotes":[{"text":"Goodnight, Sam.'Sam took a deep breath and tried to settle himself. It did not good, instead he inhaled a hint of her vanilla perfume mixed with the smell of sea salt. He couldn't help himself. His mind drifted. He longed to buy his face in her neck and breathe it in. Instead he made due with taking deep breathes as the spicy aroma engulfed him.After a while he realized this wasn't working for him, her signature scent stimulated him and forced him to long for her. He tried counting backwards from a hundred. Maybe that would work to level off his arousal so he could get some sleep. Just lying there thinking about her cologne or the fact that he could simply reach out and touch her body was enough to keep him hard all night. And frustrated...Ninety-five, ninety-four, ninety-three.","author":"Carolyn Gibbs","tags":["contemporary-romance","hawaii","murder-mystery"],"id":5559,"author_id":"Carolyn+Gibbs"},{"text":"People never think of a child as being a monster, because if they did, they would never be able to sleep at night. Children are where lies peoples hopes, dreams, innocence... Not where lies murder.","author":"Chelsea Radojcic","tags":["fire","horror","murder","murder-mystery","revenge","thriller"],"id":6891,"author_id":"Chelsea+Radojcic"},{"text":"She had golden blazing sun kissed hair, which hung down in loose, lazy spirals, a heart shaped pouted mouth, which was pink tinged with violet blushing, wide, spangled blue eyes that glimmered sparks to flicker and ember in the vivid intelligence of the moon’s love, and a yielding body, that seem to tangle in loose rhythm as I walked near to her.","author":"Keira D. Skye","tags":["divorce","fishing","ghost","ghosts","halloween","killing","lake","money","murder","murder-mystery","murderers","murders","teenagers","ugly","water"],"id":9985,"author_id":"Keira+D.+Skye"},{"text":"Eventually everyone dies, but death, in various forms and ways, still comes as a shock. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Or they consign you to flames. The flesh sizzles and the bones crackle. Be grateful it happens in that order.","author":"Mahendra Jakhar","tags":["action","adventure","astrology","benares","christianity","crime-fiction","detective-fiction","hinduism","india","murder-mystery","mystery-and-thriller-books","mystery-suspense","serial-killers","spirituality","thrillers","travel","vatican"],"id":20478,"author_id":"Mahendra+Jakhar"},{"text":"Planning a murder takes a lot of prep work.","author":"Brahms Lewis","tags":["etienne-d-oliphant-will-solve-it","murder","murder-mystery"],"id":26820,"author_id":"Brahms+Lewis"},{"text":"I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.","author":"Nike N. Chillemi","tags":["arson","historical-suspense","murder-mystery","suspense"],"id":27108,"author_id":"Nike+N.+Chillemi"},{"text":"People who go to jail breed people who go to jail.","author":"Andrew Barrett","tags":["crime","murder-mystery","police-procedural","thriller"],"id":35916,"author_id":"Andrew+Barrett"},{"text":"William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand it, and perhaps it was best for us both, because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound.","author":"Umberto Eco","tags":["historical-fiction","murder-mystery"],"id":42557,"author_id":"Umberto+Eco"},{"text":"Time meant nothing. She loved him in an instant.She would love him forever.","author":"Ellen Read","tags":["antiques","australian-","chinese-myths","friendship","historical-romanceorical","ming-statue","murder-mystery","victoria"],"id":46855,"author_id":"Ellen+Read"},{"text":"The only way he could truly stick out in New Orleans was if he were walking down the street on fire. A businessman in suit and tie would stick out more than the characters Jackson passed on those old streets.","author":"Hunter Murphy","tags":["french-quarter","louisiana","mississippi-river","murder-mystery","mystery","new-orleans","nola"],"id":48649,"author_id":"Hunter+Murphy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":84,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}