And you would never know they were gone, but losing a child left an emptiness so large it screamed to be filled with memories.
When I was done, Jonathan Green looked at Sherman again and said, We’ll want these documents preserved, and we’ll want to examine them as soon as practicable. We’ll want the results of your fingerprin...
We said our good-byes and I called Joe Pike to tell him that we were once more employed. His answering machine picked up on the first ring and beeped. He used to have a one-word message that just said...
Waiting doesn’t look like much, but it is something very important. Waiting is passive hunting.
Vincent said, You never answered my question. What question was that? Down south. You think we faced off before? No. How you know that for sure? You’d be dead. That’s funny. The boys told me the same...
Tyson’s mother worked as an office manager for a law firm in Encino. She appeared neat, trim, and ready for work when she opened the door, but carried herself with so much tension she might have been...
There are two crime scenes at every kidnapping. The first crime scene is where they snatch you, the second is where the cops find your body.
The thirty-million-candlepower Nightsun was impressive, but Scott knew the helicopter’s high-magnification cameras and FLIR heat imager gave the Air Support crew a much better view than their searchli...
The bodyguard and the driver took the old man’s arms and the four of them crept up the walk, moving at an old man’s pace. The front door opened almost at once, revealing a burly man in his middle fort...
The begging snapped into a sharp muffled shriek, just one, just the one terrible muted cry. Krista couldn’t move. She stared at the door as if it were a nightmare painting from Hieronymus Bosch’s pers...
The beer came and I said, Joe, I’m thinking that there is something larger here than an attorney’s zealous defense of his client. The master of understatement.
The Predators The African lion makes a kill only twice out of every ten hunts. Leopards do better, catching their prey twenty-five percent of the time, and cheetahs do best of all the big cats, with a...
That’s right. He was tied in with a boy down there about the time of the murders. Wasn’t enough money up here for him in hijacking; he wanted to bring in drugs, so he worked out something with a—lemme...
That Sunday, the sun floated bright and hot over the Los Angeles basin, pushing people to the beaches and the parks and into backyard pools to escape the heat. The air buzzed with the nervous palsy it...
Terrio and Deets left without a word. The chief followed them, and the woman Pike had seen in the backseat of Terrio’s car on the day they told him about Frank entered and closed the door. Blue blazer...
Talk to her, goddamnit. She ain't a stick of furniture. She is one of God's creatures, and she will hear you. I see these goddamned people walkin' dogs, yakking on their phones, makes me wanna kick th...
Stone’s voice came in Pike’s ear. Movement. They were on cell phones, each with a Bluetooth bud in his ear. They had satellite phones, but the regular cells were easier so long as they had a signal an...
Stone tried to sound noncommittal. He knew Koreatown well. Liked the women. Liked karaoke. The Koreans were big on noraebang. I
Stone touched the air with the tip of his chopstick as if he was dotting an i with a quill pen. Your talker there, he’s Sang Ki Park. He doesn’t run the gang. That would be his uncle, Young Min Park....
Still, people sometimes do strange things for strange reasons, and I decided to see what Mrs. Louise Earle had to offer. I expected that she would support her son’s claims, but in the doing perhaps sh...