Smoke and Ashes
Abir Mukherjee
"It’s not unusual to find a corpse in a funeral parlour."
"It’s not unusual to find a corpse in a funeral parlour."
"'Dr. Barelli was very cute, didn’t you think?'"
"So you came back alone, said the judge."
"The gravedigger answers the knock on his door in the building next to the wall."
"Ian and Margo left the bird garden and headed down Tung Choi Street, known locally as Goldfish Street."
"Allmen was nervous."
"‘Oddio,’ Brunetti exclaimed."
"The night was dark, wet, and cold, and the rain was coming down hard."
"When Elena Ramirez limped into the ridiculously large office with the ridiculously over-the-top views, she braced for the inevitable."
"After lunch they sat down in the office."
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