GAYLENE B CORBENAUSTRALIAN CRIME MYSTERY AUTHOR

BEYOND THE STORIES

Die For Novel Extras

Discover the music, words and stories woven through the Die For novels.

Music

Joe Paterson has a lifelong love of classic rock. Throughout the novels, songs help set the mood, reveal character and occasionally provide subtle clues. Music often accompanies Joe while driving between crime scenes or reflecting on a difficult investigation. These are the songs mentioned in the Die For novels.

  1. All You Need Is LoveThe Beatles
  2. American PieDon McLean
  3. Come Said the BoyMondo Rock
  4. Dancing QueenABBA
  5. Fire and RainJames Taylor
  6. Flame TreesCold Chisel
  7. Helter SkelterThe Beatles
  8. Highway to HellAC/DC
  9. ImagineJohn Lennon
  10. In DreamsRoy Orbison
  11. In My LifeThe Beatles
  12. In the Air TonightPhil Collins
  13. Love Is in the AirJohn Paul Young
  14. Maxwell’s Silver HammerThe Beatles
  15. MultiplicationBobby Darin
  16. On FireBruce Springsteen
  17. Pretty WomanRoy Orbison
  18. Quando, Quando, QuandoMichael Bublé
  19. Reelin’ in the YearsSteely Dan
  20. Run for Your LifeThe Beatles
  21. She’s Got a WayBilly Joel
  22. SomethingGeorge Harrison
  23. Take a Chance on MeABBA
  24. The PretenderJackson Browne
  25. The Sound of SilenceSimon & Garfunkel
  26. Those Were the DaysMary Hopkin
  27. Watching the WheelsJohn Lennon
  28. While My Guitar Gently WeepsThe Beatles
  29. Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be MeKeith Urban
  30. Working Class ManJimmy Barnes
  31. Yellow SubmarineThe Beatles
  32. YesterdayThe Beatles
  33. You Really Got MeThe Kinks

WORDS THAT LINGER

Quotes

The following quotations appear in the novels and help set the mood and theme of selected chapters.

The devil whispered in my ear, ‘You’re not strong enough to withstand the storm.’ I whispered back, ‘I am the storm.’
Unknown
Evil is unspectacular and always human and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden
How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning?
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.
Allen Saunders; popularised by John Lennon
Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Marcel Proust
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.
Cory Doctorow
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
Frank Crane
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
Voltaire
There are certain clues at a crime scene, which, by their very nature, do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How does one collect love, rage, hatred, fear, jealousy, irrationality, or other intangibles?
James T. Reese
Looking back, we see it is often casual choices which chart a path to tragedy.
Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me
Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.
Ted Bundy
It has been said, time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
Rose Kennedy
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
Tacitus
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates
No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness is always there first.
Terry Pratchett
The lesson is clear: Pay attention to your dog!
Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

Books, Movies & TV Shows

Stories and favourites referenced throughout the novels.

Movies

  • Apollo 13
  • My Fair Lady
  • Pretty Woman
  • Schindler's List
  • The Fugitive
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

Books

  • Black Beauty
  • Heidi
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
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