That’s a fantastic idea, Sweetpea. Lydia layered on the sarcasm. You believe that a high-ranking police officer might possibly be covering up a murder, or maybe is somehow involved in it, or filming i...
The Peeping Tom’s name was Gerald Scott. His son is your baby sister’s new boyfriend.
The casket was gunmetal gray with a blanket of white lilies covering the closed lid. The smell of wet earth was pungent as the machine lowered his body into the grave. Claire’s knees went weak. Her gr...
Like my father, I have devoted my life to treating animals, but that was the first time I had ever made the connection between the horrible things people do to animals and the even more horrific thing...
Conversations, and not
This sheriff goes into a saloon and says, I’m lookin’ for a cowboy wearing a brown paper vest and brown paper pants.’ He waited a beat, making sure Sara was listening. ‘The bartender says, What’s he w...
Somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on.
These were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.
Small woman, maybe five-three on a good day. Her attitude filled the room, and she walked with a swagger that rivaled a bullfighter’s.
When your father died, I remember standing at his grave and thinking, This is the place where I can leave my grief. It wasn't immediately, of course, but I had somewhere to go, and every time I visite...
There was something about the way this man touched my youngest child that set my teeth on edge. His arm linked through hers as they walked up to the house. His hand stayed at her back as they climbed...
All of your friends told the sheriff that you danced because you loved dancing, not because you were trying to attract men.
The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her. Keeping her.
A woman can run faster with her skirt up than a man can with his pants down.
You gotta go through a special kind of hell or a special
Popcorn-textured ceiling. What was
Their whole life, they’re the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they’re attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better. And then suddenly, they get bags unde...
Then I ask myself what would happen if that grimy metal mesh were taken away. What would a man like Ben Carver do to me if there were no guards posted, no barrier between us? Would he explicate Spense...
His voice had changed again. He liked this. He liked seeing her squirm. He was absorbing her fear like a succubus. Lydia heard an echo of the last words Paul Scott had ever spoken to her: Tell me you...
As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.
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