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41 " Feels like a frying pan–fire scenario. "
― Jane Harper , The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
42 " It was a long day, and the evening felt later than it was. "
43 " His features were piggy small and cramped together in the middle of his face, while his beard straggled across a thick chin. "
44 " He thought about the dark-eyed girl and about a lie forged and agreed on twenty years ago as fear and teenage hormones pounded through his veins...How short was the road from that decision to this moment? The question ached like a bruise. "
45 " abandoned toy cricket bat. Is this what his own life could have been like? Falk wondered suddenly. Kids’ cricket bats and coffee in farmhouse kitchens? He tried to imagine it. Working side by side with his dad in the open air, waiting for the moment when his old man would shake his hand and pass him the reins. Spending Saturday nights in the Fleece with Luke, eyeing up the mostly unchanged pool of talent until one day his eye stopped wandering. A "
46 " No. I suppose not,’ the farmer said. ‘I just thought, with him being your friend and all.’ ‘I’m not that kind of officer anyway. Federal. With the financial intelligence unit. "
47 " foursome. Luke’s arm was slung around the slim teenage waist of a girl with baby-blond hair. Falk’s hand hovered more cautiously over the shoulder of a second girl with long black hair and darker eyes. "
48 " Yeah, same.’ Sullivan hesitated. He could easily leave it there. Luke shot and missed again. Sullivan decided to try to meet the man halfway. ‘My gran’s getting a bit on the frail side these days,’ Sullivan said. ‘Can be a handful. "
49 " Charlotte, via Luke’s parents. It’s pretty minimal, though. It’ll probably pay off the mortgage and not much more. She’ll get the property, I guess, whether she likes it or not. So far no other real red flags –multiple accounts, large withdrawals, third party debts, that sort of stuff. I’ll keep at it. "
50 " All right, calm down, dickhead.’ He was rattled, as Falk knew he would be. There was something about seeing a name on paper that said ‘on the record’. ‘Confirm your address? "
51 " Membunuh istri dan anakmu adalah KDRT tertinggi. Tidak lebih, tidak kurang. "
52 " Jesus, Ellie, what’s crawled up your arse? You can’t take a joke all of a sudden?” Luke aimed for lighthearted bravado, fell short. Aaron could smell the alcohol in his sweat. “Did no one tell you?” Ellie snapped. “A joke’s supposed to be funny. "
53 " It wasn’t as though the farm hadn’t seen death before, and the blowflies didn’t discriminate. To them there was little difference between a carcass and a corpse. "
54 " her fingers. "
55 " All this effort. Down on your hands and knees all morning in a dead man’s barn, in this heat,” Falk said. “There’s something more. Or at least you think there’s more.” There was a long pause. Then Raco breathed out. “Yeah,” he said. “There’s more. "
