Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland #1)

by Anthony Horowitz

I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that’s one of the reasons we enjoy it.

These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

he had expressed the belief that everything in life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.

Emotions which are quickly lost in the noise and chaos of the city fester around the village square, driving people to psychosis and violence.