Christopher Everest

“He was, to my mind, a little inbred looking. His ears and nose were more pronounced than they ought to have been, he had a schoolgirl complexion with flushed red cheeks and his thin brown hair was already receding badly.  He looked like he would grow up to be a Tory politician.”
― Steve Higgs, Blue Moon Investigations Ten Book Bundle

“A frown formed on her forehead. ‘Are you saying I sulk?’ ‘No, no.’ He held up his hands defensively. ‘You just like to contemplate your options in private seclusion — with chocolate. It’s not a criticism.’ ‘Hmm...”
― Andrew Hastie, Maelstrom

“I pin the laser on the Impala and take another reading. Four hundred thirty yards, line of sight. I push a button on the rangefinder and switch to inclinometer mode. The device calculates the cosine of the angle made between true horizontal and my line of sight. The digital reading is zero-point-eight-seven, equivalent to about thirty degrees. A quick mental calculation gives me the range adjustment. The horizontal range is three hundred and seventy-five yards.”
― Cameron Curtis, Danger Close

“I can’t imagine what a fight between two librarians would look like. Did they hit each other with bookmarks?”
― Andrew Hastie, Chimaera