The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz #1)

by Anthony Horowitz

She was wearing a T-shirt and jeans that had been torn in a way that wasn’t a fashion statement.

There are some people who argue that we are too sensitive these days, that because we’re so afraid of causing offence, we no longer engage in any serious sort of argument at all. But that’s how it is. It’s why political chat-shows on television have become so very boring. There are narrow lines between which all public conversations have to take place and even a single poorly chosen

word can bring all sorts of trouble down on your head.