Death On the Lizard (2010)
Death On the Lizard
“. . . They would be born of strange stock who slept with this earth as pillow, beneath this black sky. They would have something of the Devil left in them still.
Jamaica Inn Daphne Du Maurier It did not seem the happiest of occasions, now, for a picnic. Kate and Patsy were silent, for they did not know what to say or how to say it, and Jenna herself seemed little inclined to talk. The sky, so beautiful in the early morning, had turned decidedly gloomy and all the color had been washed out ...of the landscape. The green of the moor had grown gray-black and bleak, as if to match their mood, and Jenna, silent, drove the horse as if the devil himself were after them.
At last, Jenna slowed the gig and they turned onto an almost invisible farm track leading up the side of a brown hill. Looking up, Kate could see three tall stones, each larger than a man, leaning sharply toward one another, silhouetted against the darkening sky. Nearby stood the twisted skeleton of a tree sculpted by the wind.MoreLess
Jamaica Inn Daphne Du Maurier It did not seem the happiest of occasions, now, for a picnic. Kate and Patsy were silent, for they did not know what to say or how to say it, and Jenna herself seemed little inclined to talk. The sky, so beautiful in the early morning, had turned decidedly gloomy and all the color had been washed out ...of the landscape. The green of the moor had grown gray-black and bleak, as if to match their mood, and Jenna, silent, drove the horse as if the devil himself were after them.
At last, Jenna slowed the gig and they turned onto an almost invisible farm track leading up the side of a brown hill. Looking up, Kate could see three tall stones, each larger than a man, leaning sharply toward one another, silhouetted against the darkening sky. Nearby stood the twisted skeleton of a tree sculpted by the wind.MoreLess
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