Murder on the Marshes Quotes

“It was the hooded figure that shocked Tara out of her alcohol-induced haze that night. She’d travelled the length of Riverside without noticing her surroundings – too bound up with the events of the day, its edges blurred by several shots of vodka. The sight of the person, standing perfectly still ahead of her, brought her back to reality. It was just a silhouette in the distance, almost invisible in the shadows of Stourbridge Common. She stared, but it was impossible to resolve the dark shape into anything more detailed. Someone from one of the houseboats? Or heading back towards Fen Ditton after an evening out in Cambridge? Perhaps they’d stopped for a pee or something. Behind them the open ground stretched on, empty and fading into blackness.”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“He shifted in his seat and made a conscious effort to tune in. At least the briefing would be short and to the point;”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“group.”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“I’d like to begin with huge thanks as ever to my beloved family, Charlie, George and Ros, as well as to my wonderful parents, Penny and Mike – and also to Phil and Jenny, David and Pat, Helen, and my tremendously supportive wider family and friends. Special thanks too to my lovely colleagues at the RSC and to the Westfield gang, as well as to Andrea, Shelly, Mark, Hilary, Margaret and Ange. I’d also like to say how much I appreciate the writer friends I’ve made both in real life and online – I really enjoy being part of”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“Pretty much everyone had warned her against buying the place, but too much good advice could be annoying. It had been years since she’d had any trouble, and all things being equal, she liked her own space. Not taking her eyes off the figure, she pushed the rusty swing gate open to make her way onto the common. Its creak was loud and jarring in the hot, silent night. She ploughed on towards home, waiting for the person to move off. They didn’t. They were beyond her house still, not so far off now. What on earth were they up to? Was this someone playing games? Wanting to scare her? They stood there, absolutely still, facing dead in her direction. Then suddenly she was dazzled by a beam of light. There were no lamps on the side path where the figure waited, so the glare from their torch stood out, strong and startling. They adjusted”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“Come on, it’s the end she deserved.’ It was said in a matter-of-fact tone. ‘You must have known this was coming. It’s better this way in the long run.”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“necklace”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“At seven in the morning, DI Garstin Blake was standing in the fellows’ garden of St Bede’s College, Cambridge, looking at a dead woman.”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“stood”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“had to give up on trying to guess at Blake’s train of thought and focus on some”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“blinkered”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“memorial”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“finds”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“shocked”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“figure that shocked Tara out of her alcohol-induced haze that night. She’d travelled the length of Riverside without noticing her”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“drinks”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“straight”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“Emma”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“suffused”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“that traditional place. Nearby, a blackbird sang. Blake’s phone rang.”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

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― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“for most of my childhood and my mum was a junkie. But hey, look at me now. And I’m not alone – Kit, the postdoctoral researcher on my project, had a shitty upbringing too. An alcoholic dad, a mother who died young and a sister who topped herself when he was just a kid.’ He rolled his eyes. ‘The people here at the institute really are a mixed bunch. Kit and I buck the trend though. There are precious few who weren’t born to parents from middle- or upper-class families.’ ‘So really,’ she went on, remembering what Professor da Souza had said, ‘you could argue that people like you and your researcher are better placed to see what needs to be done? If you’ve both seen the problems people encounter first-hand.”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“emptiness”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“print”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“check,”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“glanced”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“Even now,”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“she liked her own space. Not taking her eyes off the figure, she pushed the rusty swing gate open to make her way onto the common. Its creak was loud and jarring in the hot, silent night. She ploughed on towards home, waiting for the person to move off. They didn’t. They were beyond her house still, not so far off now.”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes

“everyone”
― Clare Chase, Murder on the Marshes