He was headstrong, and stupid, and handsome, which gave him cover for a hell of a lot of the mistakes he continually made-the same mistakes, over and over again, because why try new ones when the old...
He shrugged. Are you going to answer me? You told me to shut up.
He is a man who is comfortable airing his opinions, and confident that every single word that comes out of his mouth is not just correct, but fascinating. He has money, which is evident from the car h...
Existe gentileza em muitos lugares inesperados.
Dyadic completion, Paul would’ve told Claire. The human brain tends to assume that, if there’s a victim, there has to be a villain.
Considering what Pauline's been through . . . Will began, then stopped himself. She's not very nice.She's a cold-blooded bitch.I'm surprised I haven't fallen in love with her.
Claire stepped over a graveyard of cigarette butts as she followed him. The alley was T-shaped, intersecting with another service alley for the restaurants and shops. Hardly
Claire slumped down into the overstuffed chair in her office as she watched her sister go through Paul’s collection of files. Lydia seemed energized by the prospect of uncovering more lurid details, b...
Claire laughed because it was easier than telling him to brush his hair out of his eyes and go back to college. She checked the time on her phone again. Paul was now twelve minutes late. She started c...
Claire didn’t understand the appeal of being drugged. She had thought the purpose was to make you numb, but if anything, she was feeling everything much too intensely. She couldn’t shut down her brain...
And Helen’s, too. The last time Lydia had talked to her mother, Helen had said, Don’t make me choose between you and your sister. To which Lydia had responded, I think you already have.
A possum stared at me through the door all night. That’s Bill. Charlie turned on the giant television. He’s my lover.
A few years after you disappeared, a postal worker named Ben Carver was sentenced to death for murdering six young men. (He is a homosexual, which, according to Huckleberry, means he is not attracted...
Witnesses,
Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren’t lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.
This is electric, right? Lydia sounded annoyed. She’d always been angry around new things. Athens is an hour away. Really? I’ve never noticed that the eleventy billion times I’ve driven this very same...
There were a few things she knew about Will Trent. He was tall, at least six-three, with a runner's lean body and the most beautiful legs she had ever seen on a man. His mother had been killed when he...
There is kindness in so many unexpected places
The worst part was that she was turning into one of those annoying people who got so caught up whining about a bad situation that they forgot they were actually capable of doing something about it.
The two women switched to their native tongue. Kate tuned them out. She understood only half of what they were saying. As with most Americans, Dutch sounded to her more like a disease of the throat th...