All the Pieces Quotes

“Thomas Hobbes”
― Lisa Zumpano, All the Pieces: A Lillie Mead Historical Mystery

“A colonel had once told Daniel in passing that men on the fringe made the best soldiers”
― Lisa Zumpano, All the Pieces: A Lillie Mead Historical Mystery

“The coral skirt in question was adorning a mannequin by the front door, her long hands and slender arms twisted in a way no woman’s ever were, her head cocked to one side as though she were being idiotically coy.”
― Lisa Zumpano, All the Pieces: A Lillie Mead Historical Mystery

“Did you see the latest copy of the British Medical Journal? The university has just had a paper featured: ‘The Resurgence of the Mind: A Study in Leisure and Lunacy’.”
― Lisa Zumpano, All the Pieces: A Lillie Mead Historical Mystery

“lone baritone bullfrog”
― Lisa Zumpano, All the Pieces: A Lillie Mead Historical Mystery

“his favourite secretary was on duty. She gave him a nod as she lifted a coffee cup with one enormous forearm. The woman was built like a freight train and had a personality to match. It was what made her the perfect hire for the front desk at a police station. Not long after he had hired her, she had single-handedly wrestled a drunkard they had brought in on disturbing-the-peace charges. The man had managed to evade his handcuffs while she was doing his processing and had made a run for the door. The arresting officer had been slow off the mark and the secretary had quickly come around the side of the glassed reception desk and quite calmly tackled him, holding him down with one colossal knee while the arresting officer composed himself and managed to get the handcuffs back on.”
― Lisa Zumpano, All the Pieces: A Lillie Mead Historical Mystery

“The heavy scent of grease and fried onions spilled into the alleyway.”
― Lisa Zumpano, All the Pieces: A Lillie Mead Historical Mystery