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The Blood

E. S. Thomson

"Those desperate words, that fearful hand, the bloody sawdust clinging to the rough nap of such cheap paper—all troubled me."


A Christmas Revelation

Anne Perry

"Worm slept soundly that night, but he woke early in the morning thinking again of the lady he’d seen yesterday in the street. She had been frightened when she went with the two men."


Broken Ground

Val McDermid

"He felt a new respect for gravediggers who had to do this every working day. When all of this was over, you wouldn’t catch him doing that for a living."


Sherlock Complete Series One Manga

Written by Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat & Steve Thompson, Illustrated by Jay

"Who'd want me for a flatmate?"


TST

Xu Xi 許素細

"Each year, a little more deterioration—a sign gone, a door off its hinges, a windowpane shattered—until finally the wreckers appeared, and now we might never have existed at all."


“The Walk-In”

Harley Jane Kozak

"It’s not every day that you walk into your apartment and find that your cat has turned into a dog."


I Am Behind You

John Ajvide Lindqvist, translated by Marlaine Delargy

"Her daughter’s voice grates on her eardrums. Isabelle rubs her eyes. Tries to erase the incomprehensible sight. But it is still there, just like her daughter’s monotonous whine."


The Comforts of Home

Susan Hill

"He still had doubts about returning to work. How much of a cop could he be? He had been assured the arm would make ‘absolutely no difference to anyone or any aspect of the job’. Really?"


Robert B. Parker’s Blood Feud

Mike Lupica

"It turned into my version of Take a Crime Boss to Work Day."


Inhuman Resources

Pierre LeMaitre

"Your task involves placing the candidates under sufficient duress for us to test various criteria: their coolness under pressure, their conduct in an extremely stressful scenario, and their loyalty to the values of the company to which they belong."



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