We see some of the worst things that mankind can do to each other and I still get shocked by some of the things that occur. Most people can go home and talk to their families about what they’ve done a...
The nurse looked surprised. 'You're a bit high on the totem pole to be taking statements.' Carol debated momentarily how to describe her relationship with Tony. 'Colleague' was insufficient, 'landlord...
Tell you what, just to prove I'm not, I'll let you top tonight. You'll be in charge. I'll be the one with handcuffs on.'Carry on like this and you won't be wrong, Merrick thought to himself.
No. It's no the same. The interviewers want you to say what they want to hear. I want to hear what you have to say.
It forced me to realise that I'd been blaming you for not being flawless. And none of us is flawless.' Another sigh. 'I was so angry with myself for what happened to Michael and Lucy that I had to tur...
Attractive smile, Carol added to her list of particulars as she shook the hand.
Admittedly, they [(places in novels)] didn't all have such ridiculous names as the ones in the Piddle Valley where her father's group of parishes was centered. It would have been hard to make credible...
Ziggurat
She'd cook like an angel and fuck like a whore
No two bodies will decompose in the same way, and at the same rate. You can have two bodies that are literally six feet apart and they will decompose in entirely different manners. It could be the amo...
It was a lot easier to be optimistic about equality when you didn’t have to confront the Neanderthals on a daily basis. When you could imagine that people were actually changing their minds because th...
He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.
Sempiternal
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness; let us frequent it, let us get used to it; le...
I just think sometimes, they were kids once. They ran about the park kicking a football. They had things they wanted to be. Nobody dreams about being that guy there. Nobody sets out to be like him. An...
Discovering dedicated mystery booksellers was a bit like going to heaven without having to die first
Junction at the top of the stairs. She gave a curious glance down General Tilney’s corridor, but she
You take the lead. He'll open up more easily to a copper than a mumbo jumbo man
Patsy McDonald had the artificial brightness and dead eyes that go hand in hand with prescription antidepressants. They
He knew he could devastate her and drive her from him with a handful of well-chosen sentences. And part of him wanted to do just that. Part of him wanted to banish her and her presumptions from his li...