Murder In My Backyard Quotes

“They were a strangely matched couple, he thought. She seemed so upright and cold. He could picture her dressed in Puritan black and white as one of the New England settlers, motivated by principle and guilt.”
― Ann Cleeves, Murder in My Backyard

“Nothing could be more daunting, Ramsay thought, than a middle-class lady spurred on by righteous indignation”
― Ann Cleeves, Murder in My Backyard

“The noise was coming from Aunt Alice’s bedroom. Aunt Alice was crying. Carolyn stood quite still and felt her own eyes fill with tears. She felt betrayed. That was the sort of behaviour she expected from her mother, not from her aunt. Now it seemed all adults were similarly unreliable. She turned her back on her aunt’s room and looked for Peter.”
― Ann Cleeves, Murder in My Backyard

“It seemed to Max that Judy could not be happy now unless she was part of a group of women. Whenever he came home from work, the house seemed full of them or of other people’s children.”
― Ann Cleeves, Murder in My Backyard

“So he was motivated not by meanness but by a peculiar form of pride. It seemed wrong to him to pay someone to do a task that he could perform perfectly adequately for himself.”
― Ann Cleeves, Murder in My Backyard

“So he was motivated not by meanness but by a peculiar form of pride. It seemed wrong to him to pay someone to do a task that he”
― Ann Cleeves, Murder in My Backyard

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― Ann Cleeves, Murder In My Backyard

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― Ann Cleeves, Murder In My Backyard