No One Saw a Thing

by Andrea Mara

As with most disasters, it isn’t one single event or decision or misalignment of stars that causes it but a myriad of tiny twists and turns over the course of the morning.

‘I’m not sending you for your bonding skills, believe me. No offence, Jude, but you have the bonding skills of a piece of used Sellotape.

Trust is everything, Garvin. Lying about small things means a person might lie about big things. No smoke without fire.

Child-free people are not incapable of understanding what it must be like to be a parent.’

worked on the basis that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

But remember, just because someone else suffers more, it doesn’t mean we’re not suffering too. There’s always someone worse off and, by that logic, we’d never be allowed to admit to finding anything difficult at all.’

‘There are no good people. Only smart people, who know how to win at life.

Plus, Sive knows that that kind of thing – nice women committing murder – only ever happens in books. And, after all, no one saw a thing.