Quotes from Faith Martin

Hope was a bitch. It tormented you far more than pain or grief ever did.

Martha had never trusted skinny cooks.

Hey,' she said, shutting the door behind her, and making herself comfortable in the large padded chair facing his desk, without being asked. She had no need to stand on ceremony with Mel, who was one of her oldest friends. 'How's Janine?' A few months ago, he'd married DS Janine Tyler, who'd been working on Hillary's team for three years. Now, with the marriage, Janine had moved to Witney nick, and Hillary had a new DS.

duchess potatoes

Don't you think the world would be a better place if we refrained from speaking ill of the living?

again. In front of her, PC Rodney Broadstairs looked over his shoulder at her and winked.

It's a very lucrative field, you see. Keeping gangsters and corporate sharks out of jail.

pear and Camembert tarts

She'd missed lunch, and was still trying to pretend that that was a good thing. Of course, her stomach kept up a rumbling running commentary to the contrary

If you live long enough, WPC Loveday, I'm afraid you'll discover for yourself that you really can't win them all. At some point, life's going to slap you down hard. You just have to learn to take it, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and get on with things.

Daddies Sauce.

taking the piss?

And no doubt there was also a hint of one-upmanship in Debbie not passing on the information to the SIO in charge of her sister's case. It was human nature to get resentful and bloody-minded when pressed too far, after all.

his alibi. Trouble is, with him living on that

Stewart Granger