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Like most albinos, his eyesight is poor.

I may be a big bloke but I can float like a fairy when I need to.

carrot cruncher (plural carrot crunchers)

(chiefly UK, slang, derogatory) Someone from a rural background; a bumpkin.
(UK, slang) Such a police officer

I’m not psychic - I’ve just worked with you long enough to know you by now.

I can’t believe it. It’s starting to look like a home rather than Amazon warehouse.

He ... or she. There aren't that many female graffiti artists, but there are some.

You're not looking for a killer - you're looking for someone who was coerced into doing something he didn't want to do, and now he's legged it.

(Oh, I thought the narrator said the character was gardening with "sequiturs". A web search turned up "secateurs"!)

It was busy, but without the tension and intensity of the one she just left. That wasn't to say her new colleagues weren't committed to their work. Here they had time to take their foot off the accelerator and really think things through.

Like a lot of writers, he needed to believe in his characters - otherwise, how did he expect the readers to?