Independence had brought freedom to the country, but with it had come opportunists settling into the vacuum left by the departing British.
“Sunday. Ah, Sunday. What would life be without Sundays? That melancholy day that seems to stretch out forever and yet still seems to be over too soon.”
― In the Market for Murder
― In the Market for Murder
“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
“Somewhere between Omaha and Colorado I’d fallen truly, madly, fucking ridiculously hard for Bailey Mitchell. She was all I could think about, all the time, and sometimes it felt like I’d do anything—anything—just to make sure she was happy.”
― Betting on You
― Betting on You
“All around her was vibrant life, but here she was, like Charon, piloting a lonely traveller towards death.”
― Murder on the Marlow Belle
― Murder on the Marlow Belle
“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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