She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.

... he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.

What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.