Death in Disguise: Inspector Barnaby #3 (Inspector Barnaby Mysteries) (Volume 3)

by Caroline Graham

still shaking hands with youth.

We try on many masks throughout our lives. Eventually we find one that fits so well we never take it off.’

Never forget, she used to tell him, that Jesus loves you. Personally he’d never felt this and, even if it had been true, would have gained little consolation—for who wanted to be loved by someone who loved everybody? And then only because it was their job.

Whoever called religion the science of anxiety had known his stuff. It was apparently impossible to negotiate with God—whoever he, she, it or that was.

Regret, that most suffocating and sterile of emotions, consumed her in a way that drained the present of light and warmth, rendering a peaceful future seemingly impossible.