Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook recommends the ABC of serious investigation: Assume nothing, Believe nothing, and Check everything.
There’s always a secret door, I said. That’s why you always need a thief in your party.
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the o...
I asked whether the High Fae came into the pub. Lulu gave me a crooked smile. High Fae? she asked. You know. The gentry, elves, those posh gits with extradimensional castles, stone spears and unicorns...
Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty.
He was sure that police box hadn’t been there before.
He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means...
I thought.
One of the first rules of police work is that trouble will always come looking for you, so there’s no point looking for it.
I’m working on several theories, I said. But I’m currently favoring the hypothesis that the moon has a seemingly arbitrary effect on magic because it likes to piss me off. That’s a theory with a high...
I nodded absently as I made a note of the pub. The Rising Sun drinking establishment exists right on the fringes of the demi-monde – not being nearly as antique or mysterious as it pretends to be.
I may be a city boy, but I'm fairly certain that the greasy purple and red squishy bits are supposed to stay inside the sheep and not be sprayed across a surprisingly large area. Animal attack? I aske...
I didn't ask why anybody would want to risk the electric two-step on the tracks because, as police, all three of us knew that there wasn't anything so stupid that somebody wouldn't try it sooner or la...
— Cum te mai simți? a întrebat el.— Uman, am zis.— E suficient, a spus.
Never run a game of Hide the Lady if you can’t remember where you’ve put the queen, because some people embrace forensic accounting as a blood sport.
This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever it is and however small the thing it is they do.
Speak, friend, and enter,
Scrumpy, said Beverley. What’s the difference? Beverley thought about it for a moment or two. It’s not made in a factory, she said. So, no quality control then? Are you going to talk about it or drink...
My milkshake brings all the gods to the yard.