Independence had brought freedom to the country, but with it had come opportunists settling into the vacuum left by the departing British.
“Revenge is a dish best served cold, my lady, but that would be cold and starting to grow mould.”
― In the Market for Murder
― In the Market for Murder
“If you want it, dear,’ she continued, ‘you should do it. I’ve never let the fear of people thinking me a ninny stop me from doing anything.”
― Death Around the Bend
― Death Around the Bend
“But I was pleasantly surprised to see that someone had given the furniture department a bit of a makeover and there were a few lounge suites that looked like they’d actually been designed sometime after the fall of the Berlin Wall (as opposed to before the building of it).”
― Murder on the Menu
― Murder on the Menu
“His Majesty’s army is keen on murder and theft only in the name of colonial expansion.”
― A Quiet Life in the Country
― A Quiet Life in the Country
“I’m an empirical girl. You know me. Show me some evidence and I’ll be excited as a puppy, but a few credulous folk hearing bumps in the night isn’t enough for me.”
― In the Market for Murder
― In the Market for Murder
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