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“These people just go on killing. MURDERS! I pity them for being so very, very stupid, so servile, for humiliating themselves so much… .”

“I keep asking why? What for? Who’s to blame? I ask, but there’s no answer. All I know is that we are living in misery. Yes, I know, politics is to blame for it all. I said I wasn’t interested in politics, but in order to find out the answer I have to know something about it.”

“HORRIBLE! I don’t know how often I’ve written that word. HORRIBLE. We’ve had too much horror. The days here are full of horror.”

“Today in Vaso Miškin Street people signed the book of mourning and laid flowers. They renamed the street and now it’s called the Street of Anti-Fascist Resistance.”

“The forces of war don’t know anything about love and the desire to save something. They just know how to destroy, burn, take things away. … I feel as though no one and nothing here will survive.”

“There’s no joking with war.”

Bless their hearts, they always think their old “normal” will return, just as so many Americans now cannot accept that the US as they’ve always known it has become a chapter of the past.

“War is something inhuman.”

cf. Reneé Good

pp. 30-1: “misinformation”

1st mention of Anne Frank

Aaaaand there’s the bad motive for the character to do something illegal for money. Oh, dear…

First signs of trouble. A character I like who has been in several of these books is suddenly involved in something potentially illegal. She better not twist this personality completely and make them a murderer!

After feeling that the previous installment of this series was a fiasco, I’m tracking whether this one goes off the rails, and if so, when. The murder in this mystery has *just* occurred, and so far it’s going okay—the set up was a bit forced, but overall, not bad.