2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 219: ‘She thought he were the bee’s knees’.at bee’s knees, n.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 241: ‘I don’t want Carol to be blindsided by more misunderstanding’.at blindside, v.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 92: [T]he perfect drag strip for boy racers to burn rubber in their pimped-out hatchbacks, the roar of their phat exhausts splitting skulls.at boy racer (n.) under boy, n.2
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 100: She didn’t think he’d have the brass neck to show up.at brass neck, n.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 29: ‘Morning, skipper [...] shall I make us all a brew?’.at brew, n.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 92: [T]he perfect drag strip for boy racers to burn rubber in their pimped-out hatchbacks, the roar of their phat exhausts splitting skulls.at burn rubber, v.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 210: ‘Eloise and me, we were really chuffed’.at chuffed, adj.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 213: ‘Her weekend [...] must have been even more of a cracker than she’d hoped’.at cracker, n.6
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 209: ‘I mean, I know he’s a dick, but to kill her?’.at dick, n.1
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 163: ‘I’m off on a second date with El’s dishy friend Mark’.at dishy, adj.1
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 112: ‘So you think the whole lovey-dovey atmosphere might have made Kathryn an easier pick-up?’.at lovey-dovey, adj.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 122: All the years of knock-backs and put-downs.at put-down, n.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 163: ‘El’s dishy friend Mark, a million times more fab than scuzzy Steve!!!’’.at fab, adj.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 198: ‘If someone passed that paper trail on to the IPCC, you’d be fucked’.at fucked, adj.1
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 92: With his petrol-head world view Kevin knew the dual carriageway [...] would be the perfect drag strip.at petrol-head, n.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 225: ‘I was a bit pissed off. Nobody likes being given the heave-ho, do they?’.at heave-ho, n.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 101: ‘It was bought in a hole-in-the-wall shop in Dudley’.at hole in the wall, adj.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 80: That so-called forensic gait analysis was pretty much junk science.at junk, adj.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 213: ‘How’s Barbados?’ ‘We are loving it large’.at large, adv.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 209: Was this chance, or was it part of the killer’s MO?at m.o., n.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 50: ‘It’s not that he’s Mr Right [...] But he made me realise that you’re Mr Wrong’.at Mr Right, n.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 92: [T]he perfect drag strip for boy racers to burn rubber in their pimped-out hatchbacks, the roar of their phat exhausts splitting skulls.at phat, adj.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 112: ‘So you think the whole lovey-dovey atmosphere might have made Kathryn an easier pick-up?’.at pick-up, n.
2017 V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 92: [T]he perfect drag strip for boy racers to burn rubber in their pimped-out hatchbacks.at pimped down (adj.) under pimp, v.