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Book cover for The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz #4)

The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz #4) by Anthony Horowitz

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From the amount of crime fiction you’ll find in bookshops and on TV, you’d think someone is being murdered every hour of the day, but fortunately real life isn’t like that

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“she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life.”
― Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered

tags: taxes

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“He was a lean, contained-looking man, with a clipped grey beard and a mouth that cut across his face on a severe slant, like that of someone who spent his days listening to bullshit.”
― Helen Garner, This House of Grief

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“The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones’ wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.”
― Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead

tags: bereaved, death-of-a-loved-one

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“When life gives you lemons, ask for chocolate instead!”
― Nashita

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“We are all glamorous, some more so than others.”
― Iain Cameron Williams, The Empirical Observations of Algernon

tags: glamor, glamorous, iain-cameron-williams

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