Pike approached the man from behind. He shifted left or right just enough to stay in the man’s blind spot, moving so quickly that he was outside the office one moment and across the lot in the next, w...
A shopping bag from a local hobby store contained kits for making buzzers and doorbells. Jugs of liquid resin and rolls of plastic food wrap sat beside the bag, and a mini-loaf baking pan was wedged b...
A short man who himself had been an attorney before becoming a broadcast journalist shouted, Jonathan? Is it true that evidence found in the house exculpates Theodore Martin in the murder of his wife?...
She fell silent for a time, then slowly looked at me. She was just so lonely, you know? It was painful. I told her to try one of those online matchmaking services. I pushed. Women like Amy can be— She...
Pike held out Karen’s photograph. Have you seen this woman? No. I am sorry. Every word like that. Without contractions.
Traci Louise Fishman picked at the steering wheel some more, then gave me the Special Secret look again. Like there was something else I’d never heard before, and something Traci had never been able t...
The cold grew until Cole felt numb. He stared at Steve Brown’s house, and wondered who these people were and if everything the woman told Pike was lies. Cole
Pike heard a car door slam and once more shifted to the window. Larkin Conner Barkley had gotten out of the limo to meet her father and Kline. She had a heart-shaped face with a narrow nose that bent...
People over the years,
Streetlamps and security lights blazed hot in the confined lane, giving the mist a purple-blue glow. Pike stopped outside Dru’s house. A few windows glowed dull ocher in the surrounding houses, but mo...
Scott woke the next morning, feeling anxious and agitated. He had dreamed about Marshall and Daryl. In the dream, they stood calmly in the street as the shooting unfolded around them. In the dream, Ma...
Detective Sergeant Lincoln Gibbs was a tall, thin African-American with mocha-colored skin, a profoundly receding hairline, and tortoiseshell spectacles. He looked like a college professor, which was...
Scott turned away with Maggie at his side. He felt like an idiot for believing he had discovered a glaring discrepancy when top-cop detectives like Orso and Cowly knew the case inside and out. Scott w...
Don’t tell her what I found here, okay? I want to tell her. Whatever you want. I have to go. Pike
Pike glanced in the rearview. Civilians? I don’t understand. Stone jabbed him with the rifle. Women and children, dipshit. A family. You got innocent people living in there, or just dead men like you?...
She cleared her throat. My ex-husband, Richard. Ben’s father. She cleared her throat again. He came to see you? Yesterday. And you didn’t call me. It wasn’t a question. More a statement, more just wan...
I nodded. I mean, God, I’m paid to advise other people, am I not? I nodded again. Getting a lot of nod practice tonight.
You good with Arabic? Bam! Out of left field, and now Stone was smiling. There were many Arabic dialects, from Moroccan Arabic with Berber words which often did not even sound Arabic, to the aristocra...
Pike dug his index finger into the soft tissue beneath the man’s collarbone where twenty-six individual nerves joined into the brachial plexus. The supraclavicular nerve, which carried information int...
Ghazi al-Diri’s life ended with the Korean’s call. He was in the commissary when his phone buzzed, letting his coffee steep in a French press he brought from Saõ Paulo. Now, he slipped the phone into...
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