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Leave the Grave Green (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #3) QUOTES

Leave the Grave Green (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #3) QUOTES

1 " empty "

― Deborah Crombie , Leave the Grave Green (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #3)

2 " He said the words flatly, with an ease born of years of practice, yet it still amazed him that such simple sentences could contain such betrayal. "

― Deborah Crombie , Leave the Grave Green (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #3)

3 " said, “before you have your wicked way with me. I’m Tommy Godwin, by the way.” “So I’d gathered,” retorted Gemma, escaping gratefully to the loo. Once safely behind the closed "

― Deborah Crombie , Leave the Grave Green (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #3)

4 " It’s fashionable these days to pooh-pooh the Golden Age crime novel as trivial and unrealistic, but that was not the case at all. It was their stand against chaos. The conflicts were intimate, rather than global, and justice, order and retribution always prevailed. They desperately needed that reassurance. Did you know that Britain lost nearly a third of its young men between 1914 and 1918? Yet that war didn’t physically threaten us in the same way as the next—it stayed safely on the European Front. "

― Deborah Crombie , Leave the Grave Green (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #3)

5 " But if you read Christie or Allingham or Sayers, the detective always got his man. And you’ll notice that the detective always operated outside the system—the stories expressed a comforting belief in the validity of individual action. "

― Deborah Crombie , Leave the Grave Green (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #3)