In Dust and Ashes
Anne Holt
"Only a couple of weeks left, and then it would all be over."
"Only a couple of weeks left, and then it would all be over."
"The neighbor’s car had been broken into during the night."
"The rules of the Crave were simple."
" I was just about to switch off my phone when a video appeared. It was a video of me."
"The closet door stood wide open and an empty cardboard box sat at my feet."
"Above them, in the trees, a man had been watching with binoculars."
"The key slides and turns in the lock, as smooth and slippery as a silverfish."
"Between the day in May 2005 that Ellie had failed to come home and exactly two minutes ago there had been not one substantial lead regarding her disappearance. Not one."
"The voice, female and distinctly Geordie, sounded far too happy for the early hour of the morning."
"Sometimes Katharine felt the evening rush hour to be an almost tranquil thing."
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