Book: The call of the cuckoo. Page 1

Girls die daily, including under "tragic" circumstances, such as car accidents, drug overdoses, and sometimes starvation, with the help of which they want to achieve the same figure that they show us.

Beautiful girls remain a powerful means of promoting printed products.

Strike's conscience, once harsh and unyielding, had long been shaken under numerous blows of fate, and now it was completely knocked out.

It was encouraging. Let there be something rabbit in his appearance, let his eyes - apparently short-sighted - hide behind thick lenses of glasses, but from a flawless gray suit, from a shiny bright blue tie, from watches and shoes and breathed a lot of money.

When we are young and beautiful, we are very violent.

The rich keep normal people freeloaders.

On stage in artistic disorder was there are old, faded chairs (one was lying on its side), on which sat three centerfolds. It was beings of a special breed, whose face and figure have been a rare proportions, occupies a position exactly halfway between the strange and striking.

If the elections had to be prepared by the reduction of budget funds large-scale and painful; sometimes the leaders of political parties of his smarmy speeches reminded Strike of the surgeons - those who cautiously warned that he may experience some discomfort; those who will not go through the pain of preparing to do.

The dead can only speak by the mouths of living. And left on its own signs.

Nothing - now where did Lula Landry. And everything will be there, including him and Rachel. It happens that the disease step by step turns you into nothing... this is Exactly what happened with now with her mother Bristow. Sometimes, nothing is flying you to the meeting and a concrete slab splits the skull.

But in fact, it is human nature to perceive the symmetry and equality where there are none. Kind of like the same thing, and in fact - entirely different...

Children absorb the beliefs of adults at some deep, primitive level.

You see, the loved ones of suicide victims are often tormented by remorse. They believe, even unreasonably, if not done everything in their power to prevent the tragedy. A verdict of "homicide" could save the family from any problems, right?

Oddly enough, countless photos showing mysterious appearance of a top model, still did not help, and only prevented the Strike to believe that Landry once existed in reality. She had some pretty standard features, generalized, abstract, but the face was struck by the unique beauty. But now, in the office, these dry black marks on paper, a semi-literate texts with incomprehensible extraneous jokes and nicknames called before him the Ghost of the dead girl. Her messages Strike opened something that was not proven hundreds of her photos: he's more of a gut than the mind realized that then, on a snowy London street, died a real girl of flesh and blood who lived, laughed, cried. Turning the pages of the case, he hoped to find at least a shadow of the killer, but instead saw only the Ghost of the Lula staring at him - as sometimes happens with victims of violent crimes through the wreckage of broken lives.