Independence had brought freedom to the country, but with it had come opportunists settling into the vacuum left by the departing British.
“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
“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
“My parents used to have so many family friends, uncles and aunties whom I’d known my whole life. Who would’ve hosted me in a heartbeat. But that was before they’d had a falling-out. Well, really, that was before my parents had been pushed out, basically ostracized after everything that had happened with my sister.”
― Flirting with Disaster
― Flirting with Disaster
“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
“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
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