Somewhere along the line, it occurred to him that he hadn't spoken to Virgil Flowers. He'd probably taken the day off, and knowing Flowers, he'd done it in a boat. The thing about Flowers was, in Luca...
SCHIFFER WAS LEAVING, Dannon asked Carver to do a serious look around the yard. One of the radar buzzers had been going off, Dannon said, and he hadn’t been able to isolate why. Probably another godda...
My problem with that is I don’t believe God cares what we do. Everything is equally relevant and irrelevant to God. A religion is nothing more than a political party organized around some guy’s moral...
Murdered? Somebody murdered him? Palmer was agog. A thin, soft man with a pitted nose and a bald, bumpy egg-shaped head dotted with dime-sized freckles, he was wearing jeans and a T-shirt that said, N...
LIKE ANY GOOD MINNESOTAN, Lucas rarely missed the TV weather before going to bed.
Impossible to know. The thing is, you take a fork in the road, it doesn’t always work out for the better . . . but sometimes it does. It must.
If the AG had been a lightbulb instead of a lawyer, he would have been about a twenty-watt.
I'll bring pajamas she said. Yeah? You have any idea how old I am? Not nearly as old as you're gonna be by midnight.
I was skateboarding on the levee and lost my edges, she said. You were skateboarding? She turned and looked at him and shook her head in exasperation: No, you dummy, I fell. On the ice. On the sidewal...
His ex-wife, Truly, whom he still occasionally visited, wore various pieces of camo, depending on daily fashion demands—more at Walmart, less at Target.
Coyotes don’t eat dachshunds, Johnson said. Dachshunds were bred to go down badger tunnels and drag the badgers out by their ass. A good-sized dachshund could weigh thirty pounds and has jaws like a c...
But the laughter was like a water bug on a pond, skating across the surface of his mind. He was amused and he laughed, but nothing was deeply funny; life was simply stupid most of the time.
But as cops began to develop FBI-like attitudes, and to build FBI-like fortresses, as they sealed themselves away in patrol cars, as they fended off contact with the public, they began to resemble a p...
All right. I’ll keep it quiet. Attaboy. This thing is going to work out, Lucas. For us. It really shouldn’t matter whether we get the killer this week or in two weeks. What matters right now is to try...
Operations, trying to get things straight. He now had so much metal in his pelvis that he carried a TSA Notification Card just to get on an airplane. Despite the lingering disability, he’d gone back t...
We ain’t in California no more, Pilate said. Every fuckin’ body up here’s got a gun. Even that old lady in the hamburger shop, shot Michelle.
She made a moue, then said, There’s one exception. If he is, in fact, in love with Ms. Grant, he might take one for her . . . if she’s involved. If he thinks Carver acted alone, he might also turn on...
Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean.
NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER: Has excessive feelings of self-importance. Reacts to criticism with rage. Takes advantage of other people. Disregards the feelings of others. Preoccupied with fantas...
I’m pretty delicate, Lucas admitted. You know, when I’m not beating somebody senseless.