She pressed her fingers to the woman’s neck and felt icy skin.Bending close to the lips, she waited for the whisper of a breath, the faintest puff of air against her cheek.The corpse opened its eyes.
She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.
She met his gaze, and what she saw in his eyes scared her, because at that instant she saw both possibility and heartbreak. She was ready for neither.
She had never paid much attention to the heart beating in her own chest. As she watched the pattern traced by Korsak's, she became aware of her own pulse. She had always taken her heartbeat for grante...
Sahip olamayacağın bir adama aşık olduysan hayal kırıklığından başka ne elde edebilirsin ki?
Richard subtly slipped in the fact that he is thriller writer Richard Renwick, creator of MI5 hero Jackman Tripp. Unfortunately none of them had ever heard of Richard or his hero, which led to a prick...
Kusursuz suç, diye düşündü Jane. Ama bir görgü tanığı vardı. Mahsen merdiveninin altına saklanmış, sessiz bir kız.
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire’?
Deves prestar sempre atenção aos teus sonhos, ensinara-lhe a mãe. São vozes que te dizem o que já sabes, sussurrando-te conselhos que ainda não seguiste.
But that’s what our ancestors did, Millie. This is where we all come from. Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home.
But human anatomy and human endurance are variable. While the much younger nun had succumbed to her injuries, Ursula's heart kept beating, her body unwilling to surrender its soul. Not a miracle, mere...
Based on the timing, the circumstances. In July 1970, William Maitland vanished from the face of the earth. In August of the same year, we heard the first reports of a foreign pilot flying for the ene...
Atalarımızla bağımız olmazsa, hiçbir şeyle ve hiç kimseyle bağı olmayan, gelişigüzel salınan, yapayalnız toz zerreleri oluruz.
An hour before her shift started, an hour before she was even supposed to be there, they rolled the first corpse through the door.
Jane remained in her chair thinking about justice, about how the dead never benefited from it. For them it always comes too late.
Fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She
Your first look at Africa, said Henk, leaning in to murmur in her ear. Does it surprise you? She swallowed. It’s not what I imagined. What did you imagine? Lions and zebras running around everywhere?...
You have been getting all worked up about not looking out for me. Me, I've been lying here getting pissed about falling down on the job. I mean . Kerplunk.
When you cannot see where you are going, when you do not know your final destination, every hour is its own eternity.
We’re all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it’s always such a surprise.