Past Lying
Val McDermid
"Looking down across the New Town and beyond from this height, nothing was stirring. It was like the zombie apocalypse without the zombies."
"Looking down across the New Town and beyond from this height, nothing was stirring. It was like the zombie apocalypse without the zombies."
"Her eyes are hard and the smile she was wearing is gone."
"He was a serial killer. Not someone worthy of love."
"I shouldn’t be surprised he has betrayed me again. Fool me once, and all that. But this time it’s business."
"Despite all that Mimi Jackson knew, the chicken fajitas still looked good. Smelled good, too."
"Being inside a church always made her feel good, and her anxious brow relaxed as she absorbed the peaceful and uplifting atmosphere."
"xShe needed Varnas to protect her from the presence that had visited her the night before. It was almost too much. The strain of repressing it left her nerves thin..."
"Every single person in Plumpton knows that Lucy Chase killed my sister. It’s just that no one can prove it."
"Matthew Meacham’s body quaked, his mind raced, and his skin burned."
"In his other hand he held what looked like a child’s wooden baseball bat, the end wrapped in a dark fabric that seemed to arch and writhe. Blood, my brain would not yet permit me to acknowledge."
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