Little Sister
Isabel Ashdown
"You were perfect, unblemished."
"You were perfect, unblemished."
"Forgive me Father, for I have sinned."
"As the team unpacked things from the SUV and distributed them for carrying down the trail, I walked a little way off to grab a cigarette."
"That was the statement I gave to the police, sitting in the police station somewhere off the A1 in France. It was the truth. But not quite the whole truth."
"Hollisworth is no burg; it’s a solid little city, with the exception that it belongs to the syndicate, lock, stock and barrel."
"Not for the first time, Sarah Carpenter stands at the top of the hill and thinks that this would be a good place to die."
"Two days after the race a friend of his father’s arrived in Tanduzzo: Pasquale."
"The woman held Greg Carver’s front door open for the paramedics."
"We woke up before sunrise this morning."
". Impossible to say for sure in black and white, but the likelihood of Johnny Dornan climbing up into the saddle ever again was growing dimmer by the minute."
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