The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12)
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Shona always thinks that everything’s related to sex. It comes of teaching English Literature.
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But, looking at the green space in front of her, Ruth thinks she hardly needs geophysics. ‘Nettles,’ she says. ‘Yes,’ says Ted. There is a dense patch of nettles in the very centre of the garden. Nettles thrive on nutrients from human waste and so their existence on a site usually means that people have lived there—or that there’s a dead body buried in the vicinity.
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He’s not much of a reader but he tries a few pages of one of Michelle’s books and throws it across the room in disgust. Who writes this rubbish? If he met a man like Christian Grey he’d have him up on a charge before he could say ‘safe word’.
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a brief liaison with a Norwegian called Lars,
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Not Lars, it was Leif, Erik’s son
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The things we fear in secret always happen.
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Kierkegaard warped?