arthur bown

“She sighed audibly. ‘I bet this is something to do with the bloody magazine.’ ‘Fanzine. It's not a magazine, it’s a fa-’ ‘I don't”
― Dougie Brimson, The Crew

“but a bloodied stump in its wake. A red”
― Caroline Mitchell, Murder Game

“call her just to bring him back to the office. He had a bike. Probably he just needed her there quickly. So she navigated her way there as fast as she could. Jessica showed her through to the office where Cross was sitting at the desk reading one of Leonard’s files. ‘I’m here,’ she said. He was beginning to find her habit of stating the unnecessarily obvious all the time irksome. ‘What do you need?’ she went on. He pointed at the archive boxes. ‘Those. To the office.’ He got up and began to take”
― Tim Sullivan, The Dentist

“If Val hadn’t been there, I’m not sure if I could have made it. Her chatter kept my mind off how much I had to do. We booked a room, called the cleaner and a locksmith then grabbed a coffee at Starbucks to give me a short blast of energy. CHAPTER 20 The cleaners had taken an hour to arrive, and another hour to get the mess out of the house. Val and I sat on the floor of the untouched roof patio, well untouched in that they’d thrown the furniture over the”
― P.A. Wilson, Hubris