Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.
They got stuff here that I didn’t even know existed. Everything’s spandex and sequins. It’s a retired ho’s dream come true.
There’s no tab. And there’s no price for what we give each other. Not ever. Not financial. Not emotional. I have to get back to work.
There's been an accident. I had Mr. Loosey on the table, and I was gonna get him dressed, and then I had to go fix the thermostat, and when I got back to Mr. Loosey, I noticed he was missing his..um,...
There were two doors that opened off the hallway. The doors were labeled PUSSY and MOTHERFUCKERS. I'm taking the Motherfuckers door, I said to Ranger. No way. That's my door.Well, I'm sure as hell not...
There are four ways to manage stress. There's drugs, there's alcohol, there's sex, and there's doughnuts. I go with sex and doughnuts. I tried the other two and it wasn't any good. You being in a dry...
The third message was from my mother. 'Why me?' she said. 'Why do I have to have a daughter who finds dead bodies? Where did I go wrong? Emily Beeber's daughter never finds dead bodies. Joanne Melanow...
The lights were low, and Ranger was naked and lounging on the bed, waiting for me to return. I did a slow scan of his perfect body.
That sounds like something sick, Lula said. What kind of a person would participate in a cornhole competition? I personally wouldn’t be involved in anything to do with cornholes.
That might work, I said. I'm good at faking it.This led to a couple moments of uncomfortable silence from both of us.You didn't mean... ? Morelli asked.No. Of course not.Never?Maybe once.His eyes narr...
That could be a problem, Glo said, since I seem to have made a combination of two spells. But here’s the good news. I didn’t have any powdered newt snot, so the spell is most likely temporary.
THERE ARE SOME MEN who enter a woman’s life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me—not forever, but periodically.
Sorry about Bender, Lula said, letting the Trans Am idle at the curb. Maybe we could tell Vinnie he died. We could say we were all set to bring Bender in, and he died. Bang. Dead as a doorknob.Better...
Sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s love and what’s only indigestion,
Something’s going down, I said to Morelli. All the players are here. Maybe we should call the police. I’m the police.
Ranger’s gonna hate this, Tank said. Better to get shot than to have to explain the gate. Bad enough I got a horse that smells like his shower gel.
Ranger was probably riding the wind, looking for the guy. And any well-adjusted person would walk away and let Ranger do his thing. Unfortunately, I wasn’t that well adjusted.
Ranger was dressed in jeans and a black T-shirt and boots,
Ranger transferred the messenger bag from his shoulder to mine, pulled me into him, and kissed me like he meant it.
Ranger slung an arm around me and hugged me into him, and I could feel him laughing.