Murder at Abbeymead Farm Quotes

“Not that anyone ever truly knows what a marriage is like, except the two people in it. And, even with a wrong choice, there's sometimes a second chance”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder at Abbeymead Farm

“There are too many oddities, Jack. Too many arbitrary events. Usually by this stage, one or two strands are beginning to make sense, but not this time. It seems as though anything might happen at any time. It's making me feel unsafe”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder at Abbeymead Farm

“The thing is... I don't understand anything about this case. There seems to be more crimes and more suspects every day”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder at Abbeymead Farm

“Ross leaned back in his chair and flicked a pen through his fingers. One of the new biros, Jack noticed”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder at Abbeymead Farm

“It was lunchtime the next day and Flora was already looking forward to the evening - an early supper and several hours of reading by the fire. April was still cold enough to put a match to the logs she'd stacked in the fireplace and enjoy the smell of apple wood. Enjoy, too, the latest Ian Fleming to arrive at the All's Well, 'From Russia With Love'. She couldn't approve of his hero, but the books were wonderfully exciting”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder at Abbeymead Farm

“Writers had all the time in the world, it seemed, but shopkeepers didn't”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder at Abbeymead Farm