Warren Hicks

“I feel like a fucking chocolate poker,’ he said. ‘What on earth do you say to a man whose wife is on the brink of losing her mind, and whose sister and brother-in-law just died, and now his little niece is lost and possibly abducted?’ ‘Nothing, Matt. Just be there for him, that’s what he needs now. He needs to know he’s not alone.”
― Joy Ellis, The Dying Light

“HOLMES?’ Jackman nodded. He’d always thought the acronym for the Home Office Large and Major Enquiry System”
― Joy Ellis, The Murderer's Son

“The worst were the Christians who would try to have ‘a quiet word’ with him before the meeting, trotting out the usual shit. They based the twelve steps of recovery on the Bible. He needed to say his prayers every morning. Fire and brimstone. Nothing worse than a converted alcoholic who then becomes a bullying AA zealot.”
― Simon McCleave, The Snowdonia Killings

“Her voice was soft, and there seemed to be another accent beneath the Canadian vowels.”
― Joy Ellis, The Dying Light