“Strike was becoming steadily more taciturn, his expression brooding. Robin wondered whether this was because he was hungryhe was a man who needed regular sustenance to maintain an equable moodor fo...”

“Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.”

“For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He could remember exactly what it felt like to have his arm around her waist as they had meandered to...”

“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”

“[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.”

“It is important to demonstrate to the unfree world that one of the privileges of democracies is to enjoy freedom of travel and intercourse and the exchange of knowledge and ideas. [Gerald Barry, fr...”

“Strike was becoming steadily more taciturn, his expression brooding. Robin wondered whether this was because he was hungryhe was a man who needed regular sustenance to maintain an equable moodor fo...”

“For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He could remember exactly what it felt like to have his arm around her waist as they had meandered to...”

“One of the earliest and most vivid memories of Robins childhood was of the day that the family dog had been put down. She herself had been too young to understand what her father was saying; she to...”

“One of the earliest and most vivid memories of Robin’s childhood was of the day that the family dog had been put down. She herself had been too young to understand what her father was saying; she t...”