Murder at Work Quotes

“reported to the police were designated as ‘suspicious”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“With a mental sigh, she snapped shut the folder she’d been reading, which was DC Mark Chang’s report on the hijacking of a lorry near the Pear Tree roundabout, in which a batch of computers had gone walkabout. The constable clearly suspected an insider in the computer firm, and Hillary agreed with him. Someone in the firm must have tipped off the hijackers — especially since the routes were always varied, and even the drivers got shuffled around at the last minute without warning. She couldn’t fault the firm’s managing director in his attempts to keep the business’s insurance bills down, and he must be spitting nails at this latest setback”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“fulminating”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“avaricious”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“ineffably”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“collywobble,”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“perspicacity,”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“chuffed”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“stultifying”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“phlegmatically.”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“approbation”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“went on as if nothing had happened.’ She shook her head in wonder, as if unable to believe her memory. ‘You were working in reception at the time? You do work at the surgery where Michael Ivers was a”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work

“Maybe it never got easier for the families concerned. Perhaps they just got slowly more and more used to it until, one day, they were able to wake up and could simply ignore the pain and loss for whole hours at a time.”
― Faith Martin, Murder at Work