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Val Mcdermid

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    He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

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    It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

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    Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers.

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    No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

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    Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

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    That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.

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    Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.

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    When all else fails, go for the ego.

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    As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

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    Everybody seemed to like Skype except him, Tony thought, closing his office door then settling in front of his screen. His dislike was both personal and professional. Everybody looked weird on Skype. Everyone, frankly, looked like a potential patient. There was something very unsettling about that fish-eyed stare. Even people he liked looked deranged. From a professional perspective, the trouble was you could never see enough of the person you were in conversation with to gauge their body language. They might be giving off all sort of signals you’d be aware of in what his boss had taken to calling “F2F encounters,” but the Skype interface could hide a multitude of clues.

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    It wasn't enough but it was a start. It might keep him going...

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    I've read the stories. Teenagers committing suicide because all they can see ahead of them is shame and disgrace. Kids running away from home because they feel like they've list their future. Well, I'm not having that happen to Torin.

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    The Glasgow accent was so strong you could have built a bridge with it and known it would outlast the civilization that spawned it

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    To come up against someone who appeared not to give a damn about exerting petty power almost restored his faith in the public.

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    What it had done, however, was to give him a feeling of power and control that had taken him back to how he used to feel every day.

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    ′You're a very unusual man, Mark,′ she'd said. ′That's nice of you to say so,′ he said. You have no idea.