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

“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

“When someone you love dies, you don't just lose them in the present or in the past. You lose the future you should have had, and might have had, with them. They are missing from all the life that was to be.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“George’s smile was that of a lion who had just made it inside a zebra-only nightclub and was now taking off his stripey pyjamas to the horrified stares of all the other patrons.”
― Steve Higgs, Albert Smith's Culinary Capers: The first 10 Recipes