Stranahan told her not to mistake arrogance for pride. A guy like Chaz can revive his ego with the palm of his hand.
Spending time with Benny the Blister had shaken Buck Nance's confidence in the superiority of the white male. He and his brothers had clung to such views since their Romberg youth, warped by their fat...
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...
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...
Like all terrible golfers, Dr. Remond Courtney believed that nothing was too extravagant for his game. He wore Arnold Palmer sweaters and Tom Watson spikes, and carried a full set of Jack Nicklaus Mac...
Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.
In other words, we saved an animal from extinction just so we could start killing it again. How messed up is that?
In his love life Yancy specialized in devising scenarios that could lead only to unwise decisions.
His face appeared to have been massaged with an industrial cheese grater and then retouched with a glue gun.
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...
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...
For now, there's nothing to do but strap on an attitude and act like I'm having a ball.
Eventually she came to believe that her condition was one that couldn't be treated medically; she was doomed to demand more decency and consideration from her fellow humans than they demanded of thems...
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...
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...
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.
Chaz thought that he would eventually charm his new bride into sharing her vast inheritance. He had pictured the intimate ceremony taking place in the bedroom, of course, after a night of athletic lov...
But she's just a stripper.'Moldowsky grabbed Dilbeck's shirt. 'Fanne Fox,' he said, 'was just a stripper. Donna Rice was just a model-slash-actress. Elizabeth Ray was just a secretary who couldn't typ...