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Because I'm sodding sick of losing things, and I'm not losing you if I can help it.

"Give him writing from a lot of suspects in a case, and some from unrelated people too," he said promptly. "Get him to say who he thought was guilty."

*Side eye* "Unrelated," you say?
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?

"And he can't be allowed to go around making wild what-do-you-call-ems."
"Statements of fact?"

According to Aaron's hasty reading, such luminaries as Disraeli, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Browning had believed in the power of graphology, but they were a pack of writers and not to be relied on for common sense.

"I suppose it runs in the family by why women have to gabble on endlessly, never a pause for breath, talk talk talk and gossip gossip gossip. A man can't hear himself think. And I'll tell you what else—"

Hehehe. :P

Always appreciate good opening lines. :)

"Detective Sergeant Aaron Fowler massaged the base of his skull. It didn't relieve the pain in his neck, because that was sitting opposite him in an expensive suit."

Book not even started, but the copyright endpaper already made my day. I also hate that this is the current dystopian reality we live in.

"Any use of this publication to "train" generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. [...] The author would like AI companies to fuck off."

Hear hear!