The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)
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When people are frightened they lose their temper more easily. This was a lesson he had learned during his first year at Police College. As recruits they had been told not to excite frightened people unnecessarily, but Harry had discovered that the opposite was much more useful. Excite them. Angry people often said
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things they didn’t mean, or more to the point, things they didn’t mean to say.
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It was not so much being alone as not being there for someone. She had become so deeply sad from waking up in the morning knowing that she could stay in bed all day and it would not make any difference to anybody.
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‘It’s what we call a mare cross, or a devil’s star.’