Quotes from Rhys Bowen

One thing we British do well is to join a queue.

It's strange having nothing to do expect be waited on.

Decency League is backed by the most influential

What's more, I'd learn to use a typewriting machine and develop a real skill, more useful than where to seat a bishop at a dinner table.

It is Jean-Paul Lepin. Chef Lepin." I could not stifle a grin. I thought he had said lapin , which is the French word for rabbit. "For a rabbit, you seem quite fearless." This made the other chefs chuckle again, and I saw by the nod of a head that I had scored a point.

After years of working on the periphery of the fashion industry, she had come to realize the whole thing was an underhanded attempt to force women to keep buying clothes. Fast fashion had taken over. Topshop, H&M, Primark. What was in would be out in a month.

a great gust of wind swept off the Hudson and snatched my hat from my head. I gave a scream of despair

At least the two beds looked normal enough, with their crisp white sheets, and there was a desk and chair in the front window, which looked out on to the garden, with a sliver of a view of the Grand Canal beyond. I went over to the window, opened it and gazed out. The scent of jasmine rose to greet me.