“I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.”
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'This is crime writing of the very highest order ... Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around' The Times Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a female private detective who does for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding Moira is a prelude to murder...
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Val McDermid
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“I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.”
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“Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.”
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“On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in...”
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“If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act...”
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“In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.”
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“Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the...”
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“I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.”
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“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
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