Claire asked, Do you think I should call Captain Mayhew? For what? Lydia couldn’t keep the alarm out of her voice. The abrupt change in subject slapped her like a cold wind. He lied to you about the m...
Belle Isle Andy hadn’t had a drink since she’d returned home. She wasn’t sure whether or not she wanted to break the streak. Still, she took a cup and sat cross-legged on the floor so that her dad cou...
Because I said so. She paused again. Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.
Andy opened her mouth and screamed as loud as she could. It felt good, but she couldn’t scream for the rest of her life.
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...
When she got out of her car. Faith hadn’t realized that something was wrong until well after the music stopped. Will let her run through the story—the torn-up house, the dead man she’d found and the t...
The price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.
The great thing about lying was people believed it so long as the lie was close enough to the truth. Lena
Studying Lydia. Are you really sure you want to see it? For the first time, Lydia felt real trepidation about the movies.
Looking
But she’d purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she’d fall closer to the middle.
Because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.
You don’t kidnap somebody if you love them. They come to you. They choose you. Not the other way around.
Will hated those cops, had worked more than a few cases where he’d gotten them kicked off the force. You couldn’t say you were one of the good guys if you did the same thing the bad guys did.
Will had found out the hard way that it’s nearly impossible to go to sleep with a flatulent Chihuahua sharing your pillow.
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...
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...
That is called paralipsis, or, from the Greek, apophasis, Rusty informed her. A rhetorical device by which you add emphasis to a subject by professing to say little or nothing about it. He was tapping...