It had been more or less the same for Jilly. Except that she had her parents there to field any phone calls, to accept the flowers at the door and pick up the cards that dropped like tears through the letterbox. She sat before her dressing table mirror in bra and pants and let time drip away, watching a face she didn’t recognise and feeling raw emotions eat away at the drugs she was on. The emotions were gradually winning.
Andrew BarrettStichwörter: crime thriller murder-mystery police-procedural
Bold courage is paralyzing fear after humble prayer.
Kenneth E. NowellStichwörter: christian catholic thriller prophecy eschatology end-times
I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the same again. I wouldn’t. Okay?
Andrew BarrettStichwörter: crime thriller murder-mystery police-procedural
Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the damned lawyers help them do it. They’re all sticking two fingers up at them who pay their taxes. And I’ll tell you sommat for free, Sir George, them who pays the taxes are eventually going to get fed up of it.
Andrew BarrettStichwörter: crime thriller murder-mystery police-procedural
People who go to jail breed people who go to jail.
Andrew BarrettStichwörter: crime thriller murder-mystery police-procedural
If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals!
Andrew BarrettStichwörter: crime thriller murder-mystery police-procedural
She had known it was bad, call it a mother’s instinct, but she’d known this was the knock that was going to scoop her insides out and leave her barely able to stand; merely a shell with nothing good inside anymore.
Andrew BarrettStichwörter: crime thriller murder-mystery police-procedural
He couldn’t read her these days; it was as though she’d been taken away from him, and in her place some alien had dropped a figure that looked like Alice, but was a cheap imitation of her with half the emotions missing or malfunctioning.
Andrew BarrettStichwörter: crime thriller murder-mystery police-procedural
You are not there, Father,” I cried. “I wake up at Gaudlin Hall, I spend most of my day there, I sleep there at night. And throughout it all there is but one thought running through my mind.”
“And that is?”
“This house is haunted.
Stichwörter: thriller ghost-story
No woman will ever take care of my children but me, she said. I will not allow it, do you understand?
And after I am gone Madge Toxley, if you try to make them yours, then you will live to regret it.
Stichwörter: thriller ghost-story
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