“She slid open the box, extracted a match, and struck it with a flourish. The flame flared up in the gloom of the unlit room, a tiny golden beacon. For a moment, Oma Kristel held it aloft, then the unthinkable… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“Pluto was a well-known fixture in Bad Münstereifel, at least among those who lived in the old part of town. A large, foul-tempered, and… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“Herr Schiller? Are there really any such things as ghosts?' The old man did not even show surprise at the question. He heaved a… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“She slid open the box, extracted a match, and struck it with a flourish. The flame flared up in the gloom of the unlit… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“What was really unfair about the whole thing was that Oma Kristel hadn't so much exploded as spontaneously combusted. But Gossip is Baron Münchhausen's… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded.” — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“At school, the news that Pia Kolvenbach was moving to England and that her parents were divorcing had circulated with lightening speed. Suddenly I… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“Adults: they were so unpredictable that nothing they did should have been able to surprise me anymore.” — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“A ghost mill, they called it, infested with all sorts of witches, phantoms, and monsters. It was as though the very timbers of the… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“It would have been good to be the girl who helped solved the Katharina Linden case, instead of the girl whose grandmother had exploded… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“Nobody cared about Oma Kristel, about the way she had tried to keep herself attractive long after Youth had packed its bags and moved… — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
