The Girl Who Got Revenge: The addictive new crime thriller of 2018. Marnie Riches

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       PROLOGUE

       Amsterdam, the house of Brechtus Bruin, 2 October

      Brechtus Bruin was not aware that the kitchen clock ticking away on the wall was counting down the last few minutes of his ninety-five years. His movements had slowed of late, and now his complexion was noticeably wan and waxy. Perhaps he was finally feeling the poison in his bones that rainy morning. He must surely have been wondering that his shaking, liver-spotted hands wouldn’t obey his still-sharp brain, telling him to pour the coffee.

      ‘Here, Brechtus. Let me help you. Please.’

      His guest had been sitting at a worn Formica table in that homely place, waiting. He had been drinking in the familiar scene of the cramped kitchen with its sticky, terracotta-painted walls. Savouring the stale scent of cakes that had been baked decades ago by Brechtus’s long-dead wife. Now, he stood to take the kettle from the old man.

      ‘You sit down. I’ve got this. Honestly.’

      ‘I don’t like people fussing,’ Brechtus said, wiping СКАЧАТЬ