“The Regents Arms was a dingy
little place, the windows covered with a thick layer of black paint, shrouding
the drinkers in dim, artificial light.
After the brightness of a sunny morning it was like stepping into a
tomb. A collection of apostrophes hung
behind the bar – postcards, photographs, plastic ones stolen from shop signs,
all there to make up for the missing one in the pub’s name”. Stuart MacBride ‘Blind Eye’
“Do you really still believe the
popular press and prurient public care about the truth, constable? How sweet.
And where do you stand on the topics of Santa Claus and the Easter
Bunny?” Stuart MacBride “A Dark so
Deadly”
“With the toe of one shoe, she nudged an open pizza carton on the floor. The remaining slice had grown enough mould to qualify as a houseplant.”
Carol O’Connell –‘The Jury Must Die’
