There are some kinds of damage that take you far beyond normal rules and systems of ethics and morality—beyond this point be monsters, as the ancients used to say.
Know. Are you sure it wasn’t just youthful high spirits with
Gong to stay at a friend’s. Who? A girlfriend?
Tight around her while she stood at
Any idea where he might go if he did run away? Did he talk
See, squire, he said to the wide-eyed hotel manager, our boss tells us we don’t want a lot of fuss about this. None of this evacuating the area bollocks you see on telly. We go in, we disarm him nice...
I can’t say I understand any of it, myself,’ said Banks. ‘Me, neither,’ said Gerry.
Raymond Chandler, said Hepplethwaite with a sly grin. General Sternwood at the beginning of The Big Sleep. One of my favorite films. Bogey as Philip Marlowe. Must have seen it about twenty times. Know...
Scuffle, police in riot
Fool, he told himself. He had been looking for Keith Rothwell in Robert Calvert’s flat. But he wasn’t there. He wasn’t anywhere; he was just a slab of chilled meat waiting for a man with his collar on...
Their lovemaking had been a little tentative at first, but that was only to be expected. It never happened in real life the way it did in movies, with both lovers exploding together in a climax of Wag...
They were the sort of walls that hoarded winter and emanated its chill throughout summer.
About Barber and Kelly? Banks couldn’t tell. And if he
It’s hard knowing what to allow and what not to. It’s hard to know how much discipline to apply. If you don’t give enough, then the child runs wild, and the parents get the blame. If you keep too stri...
Haven’t you sometimes thought that people’s vices are often the only things that make them interesting?
Georgina are our two consultation advisers, counsellors, then there’s Dr Alex Lukas, the medical director, and Nurse Louise Griffiths.’ ‘What’s Julian Harwood’s role?’ ‘Mr Harwood? He’s managing direc...
Vaughn? she inquired. One of them. Neil. It’s a family business. Winsome and Gerry showed their warrant cards and Neil Vaughn invited them inside. The side of an old cardboard box served as a doormat,...
That the event would
The memories were there, but the string of time that linked them like a pearl necklace was broken.
The only difference was, you could play the music again and again; a life plays only once.
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