Slip of the Knife, by Denise Mina
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This mystery novel had some nice passages in it, especially regarding women. The protagonist is a female police officer:
On her need to avoid looking like a stereotype at work: "Whole areas of comment were closed to her because she was female: emotional first-person accounts about anything, stories about children, all things domestic."
On being a middle-aged, overweight woman: "She caught her breath on the top step, embarrassed, as she always was when she lost her breath, to be a fat woman, sweating."
On the problem with violence, even if well intentioned: "That’s the trouble with armed struggle. Even if it starts out very noble with good men putting their higher feelings aside it’s always going to be a magnet for thugs and sadists. There’s always going to be a faction who don’t want it to end, you know?"
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This mystery novel had some nice passages in it, especially regarding women. The protagonist is a female police officer:
On her need to avoid looking like a stereotype at work: "Whole areas of comment were closed to her because she was female: emotional first-person accounts about anything, stories about children, all things domestic."
On being a middle-aged, overweight woman: "She caught her breath on the top step, embarrassed, as she always was when she lost her breath, to be a fat woman, sweating."
On the problem with violence, even if well intentioned: "That’s the trouble with armed struggle. Even if it starts out very noble with good men putting their higher feelings aside it’s always going to be a magnet for thugs and sadists. There’s always going to be a faction who don’t want it to end, you know?"
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