The fight unfolded like background noise. White noise. In the foreground, even with his ghastly pale face looking dead in my hands, my fingers clenching his ragged hair, all I could see was random ima...
The case of Cecily Chandler is a perfect example of how privileged people get over on the system, the young man said. Harry Chandler had a famous defense attorney for a lawyer, a slick talker who prob...
The Gasman leaned over and examined the tangled pile of stereo guts spread out on the kitchen table. It looks like a robot came in here and threw up, he observed
That if I had to choose between dying tomorrow or spending the rest of my life without him, I would seriously consider picking imminent death.
Tell her parents they made a big mistake calling the police. Call off the dogs, said the caller, or we’ll hurt Madison. Permanently. If you back off, she’ll stay alive and well, but either way, the Ty...
Steve turned to us again, looking so dang enthusastic that I wondered how much coffee he'd had this morning. So, you kids want to be big stars, eh?God, no! I said spewing crumbs. No way!Oddly, this se...
Some people are not just afraid of snakes, they’re phobic. The technical term for a snake phobia is ophidiophobia, and people who have it dream of snakes, see snakes under every rock or rumple in the...
So much of it made sense, and yet so much didn’t. Amelia Lopes had been with Alicia and Natalie at the beginning of their trip to Rio. She would have had time to learn their identities and set up the...
School are plastered with all sorts of NO BULLYING posters. There’s only one problem: Bullies, it turns out, don’t read too much. I guess reading really isn’t a job requirement
On a good day, she - as funny and loud, as effervescent as a glass of Champagne; on a bad day she was like Napoleon with lipstick and PMS.
Of course I knew him. You think I’m going to let my kid ride around in a car without meeting the guy behind the wheel? And? He passed the test. I trusted him with my grandson. But now I’m nervous. I h...
Now, like all the other schools I’ve ever attended, the hallways of Long Beach Middle School are plastered with all sorts of NO BULLYING posters. There’s only one problem: Bullies, it turns out, don’t...
Normal behavior, therefore, is when we collectively believe that the circumstances justify the behavior. Likewise, abnormal behavior is when we don’t.
No, what’s the best way to catch a fish? Angel asked again. Oh. I don’t know? I said warily. Have someone throw it to you! Angel laughed, I groaned, and, next to me, Total chuckled.
No wonder i hadn't written anything decent in ages- I couldn't even figure out how to tell a boy that i loved him. That whenever i looked into his eyes, i felt like i was drowning and being saved, all...
No one looks like Fang-dark and still and dangerous, like he's daring you to set him off. But I'd seen him rocking Angel when she'd hurt herself; I'd seen him smile in his sleep; I'd seen the deep, da...
No one had figured out any of the other murders he’d done, had they? They got John Wayne Gacy, Jr., after over thirty murders in Chitown. Jeffrey Dahmer went down after seventeen in Milwaukee. Gary ha...
NEW-AGENT TRAINING at the FBI Academy in Quantico, sometimes called Club Fed, was turning out to be a challenging, arduous, and tense program. For the most part, I liked it, and I was making an effort...
My anxiety level was rising pretty fast now. Visits with the FBI can do that to you, I guess. I'd had bad experiences with them before. Ironically, so had Kit. They're good people, mostly, but somethi...
Mom said. I’m proud of you, honey. You must be doing something right. Whatever it is, just keep doing it. Oh, I will, I told her, just before I shoved some more scrambled eggs into my big fat not-quit...