Kerry Alt

“There were stories here she’d followed through her archives, which lay below the pavements of Regent’s Park, and she could tell a legend from a myth at a hundred paces—she always said “paces” when making this claim, staring hard at her interlocutor from the depths of her wheelchair, daring a furtive glance at her absent legs. Only Lamb had ever laughed, and she’d have been disappointed if he hadn’t.”
― Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas