The legs weren't hacked off with an ax, which is the most efficient way,' said Dr. Allen, pausing to choose his words. 'It appears from the wounds that Sparky's legs might have been removed by a large...
The gutted ruins of the Amazing Kingdom were razed, and the land was replanted with native trees, including buttonwoods, pigeon plums, torchwoods, brittle palms, tamarinds, gumbo-limbos and mangroves....
The answer is, nothing's going to happen to you. The friend who called, he put in a good word.''Oh, yeah?''Jail will not make an impression on this woman. Don't waste your time.' That's a quote.
Rosa got home from the office at five-thirty. They didn't go out for dinner and they didn't make love. The autopsy she'd completed was that of a girl who had died on her birthday. Only eight years old...
Poison, said Rose Jewell with a frown. No thanks. She was about forty years old and fearlessly attractive. The detective office had come to a standstill when she’d walked in—white cotton pullover, tig...
Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.
Merry’s hair was flying everywhere so she pulled it into a ponytail. It occurred to Yancy that, in the time they’d known each other, he hadn’t once seen her look at her cell phone. She never texted, t...
I never met a survivalist. How do you get a job like that anyway?'She smiled wanly. 'First you need a TV show.
I fell down the stairs. What happened to your hair? Raven’s face purpled. I don’t know what you mean.
Here, inmates would spend seven days and six nights being drilled on vacation etiquette. For example, they’d be taught how to read speed-limit signs; how to park within the parallel lines of a parking...
Her given name was Lucinda but she’d called herself Juveline since age fifteen, when she’d been caught selling knockoff Burberry totes and a cop at the booking desk misspelled the word juvenile. Big
He considered telling her about his years as a big-time smuggler, but he doubted it would improve his odds of getting laid. Once upon a time, sure, absolutely—but hers was a generation that grew up on...
From then on the sisters were unstoppable, the go-to team for celebrities in mid-flameout. When Cherry Pye's high-paid publicist jumped ship--after accompanying her to an NPR interview in which she pr...
Erin thought, ludicrously, of how disappointed her mother would be. When one's only daughter is hacked to death wearing a sequined bra top and a G-string--well, there's really no way to explain it to...
Erin said, 'I'll ask you what you've been dying to ask me: how in the world can you do it?''Do what?''Your job. Dead bodies, day after day. I couldn't take it.'The detective said, 'hey, it's a growth...
During the last days of his governorship, Clinton Tyree had lobbied for a somewhat tougher law. His version would have required anyone who killed a manatee to immediately forfeit his boat (no matter h...
Dr. Joe Allen had autopsied 3,712 murder victims during his long career as the Dade County coroner, so he had seen more indescribable carnage than perhaps any other human being in the whole United Sta...
Don’t order the fish, Yancy advised Merry when they sat down. But it’s a seafood joint. More like a petri dish with menus. When they say ‘catch of the day,’ they mean infection. Brennan
Derek wants to do this totally wild and raw. Slow and dumb doesn’t mix with wild and raw. Thanks for your input, Mr. Cray. Seriously. The man almost got killed by the world’s laziest alligator.
Buck’s girlfriend went by the porny name of Miracle though she had a master’s in computer science from Florida State.