“It was draped loathsomely in ragged finery, now soiled with blood and gore that blackened slowly in the heat that enfolded it.”

“As her jockstrap of a partner, Kieran Bew is loathsomely believable, a bloke-streak, long jawed, rolling shouldered, gloomily strong.”

“Sometimes even the most loathsomely effective Machiavellians have a bad day at the office.”