The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Galbraith, 2013
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction
A broke private detective, a supermodel's fall, and a city full of people who lie for a living — a crime novel with a sharp eye and a bruised heart.
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The quiet craft of helping someone destroy themselves.
How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life. Robert Galbraith.Robert Galbraith began as a pseudonym; in 2013 a law firm partner's wife leaked on Twitter that the author was J.K. Rowling.
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What a crowd looks like from the edge of someone else's death.
In her time as a reporter, she’d found that murder was a community event in Caldwell. Well, certainly for everyone except the man or woman who’d actually done the dying. For the victim, she had to imagine death was an alone kind of thing, even if he or she were staring into the face of the killer. Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.
Dark Lover · J.R. Ward
A marriage priced like a contract, and what time does to the balance.
When I married Jacques I understood it as an exchange. My youth and beauty for his wealth. Over the years, as is the way with this particular kind of contract, my worth only diminished as his increased.
The Paris Apartment · Lucy Foley
The line works as a thesis for the epistolary thriller: the narrator’s voice is both evidence and defence.
People do go mad, you know, if you stop them from sleeping for long enough...
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