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  1. Charles Todd _ A Duty to the Dead

    I hadn't realized that a break in a bone could be so exquisitely painful. I'd feel a greater tolerance for the the wounded after this.
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  2. Charles Todd _ A Fearsome Doubt

    When self-doubt awakens, it feeds on itself. . . .
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  3. Charles Todd _ The Red Door

    It was a miracle, finding myself a father. I can't tell you. He was so small, and yet so real. He moved, he made sounds, he opened his eyes and stared into my face. His hands clutched at my fingers. It was unexpected, the depth of my feelings for him even then. I'd have done anything for him. Died for him if need be. Nothing I'd ever done to that point in my life seemed half so important.
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  4. Charles Todd _ An Unwilling Accomplice

    Nursing Service.
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  5. Charles Todd _ A Pattern of Lies

    explain to Mark what the woman had told me
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  6. Charles Todd _ A Fearsome Doubt

    a rough sort of child with a bullying nature and a particularly unclear concept of personal property.
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  7. Charles Todd _ A Bitter Truth

    She grinned. "I seen that you was sleeping in the sitting room
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  8. Charles Todd _ The Murder Stone

    Boys have never been to war. It's easy to believe that it's all a game. That the dead will get up off the grass in time for tea.
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  9. Charles Todd _ A Bitter Truth

    Hughes has to say. In the cold light of morning,
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  10. Charles Todd _ A Fine Summer's Day

    Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, was well into his sixties. His wife, the Empress Elisabeth, had been assassinated years before by an anarchist, his only son had died in a murder-suicide pact, and now the Archduke, his heir, was dead. The fate of Europe might well depend on what a bitter old man decided.
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  11. Charles Todd _ A Test of Wills

    For a moment the man from London and the woman in mourning considered each other in silence, each gauging temperament from the slender evidence of appearance.
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  12. Charles Todd _ A Bitter Truth

    and take good care of it." "Henri's neck
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