Literature

“Well, there’s Jeffrey…” the strawberry blond said.”Already begun,” Faye said, smiling. “I work fast, Suzan.” Suzan laughed. When she did, her extraordinary chest jiggled in a way that made Cassie…

The gray cashmere sweater or the blue-and-white Fair Isle cardigan, that was the question. Cassie stood in front of the gilt-framed mirror, holding first one and then the other in…

Her mother was still talking in that falsely bright way, but Cassie could only hear snatches of the words. “… original wing actually Prerevolutionary, one-and-a-half stories… front wing is Postrevolutionary…

An instant later Cassie came out of her daze. She’d better get moving; Logan and Jordan might be coming back any second. And if they realized she’d deliberately lied to…

When Cassie got to the place where the boy had turned, she walked up the dunes between the pitiful little clumps of scraggly beach grass. At the top she looked…

It wasn’t supposed to be this hot and humid on Cape Cod. Cassie had seen it in the guidebook; everything was supposed to be perfect here, like Camelot.Except, the guidebook…

It is Palmer who makes the first contact, toward the end of September.He tells Cynthia on the telephone that he’s had a transatlantic call from Norman Zimmer, who’s producing a…

Chapter Nine The detectives were waiting in the lobby of Fitness Plus when Connie Lindstrom walked out early Thursday morning, her mink coat flapping open over black tights and Nike…

Nellie Brand came to the case with a cool assistant district attorney’s eye, ten years of experience in the D.A.’s office, and the hood of a ski parka pulled up…

When they went to see Norman Zimmer again, they were prepared to threaten him with a grand-jury subpoena. Instead, he seemed ready to cooperate. This was now Friday morning, the…

They went in with a No-Knock arrest warrant and Kevlar vests because from what Betty Young had told them, the dude in here was no cookie-cutter.The trouble with most tenement…

To think of something romantically is to think of it naively, in a positivelight, away from the view of the majority. Percy Bysshe Shelley has manyromantic themes in his plays….

He had drank too much, and had argued with his uncle Dominick too loudly about whichever war was current wherever in the world. His uncle’s attitude was always and ever…

There were three airports servicing the metropolitan area. The largest of them, out on Sands Spit, flew three direct flights and six connecting flights to Houston on most weekdays. The…

Since there were two homicides on the table this Tuesday morning – an unusual circumstance, even for the Eight-Seven – Lieutenant Byrnes told the detectives assembled in his office that…

It was raining relentlessly on the morning of October thirtieth, a Saturday, the day after the body of Andrew Henry Hale was found dead in his bed in an apartment…

It is Palmer who makes the first contact, toward the end of September.He tells Cynthia on the telephone that he’s had a transatlantic call from Norman Zimmer, who’s producing a…

I open my eyes. I am lying on my back, arms folded behind my head, looking up at a flawless summer sky. ‘Yes?’Julie stirs on the red blanket, scooting a…

Nora Greene is in the square by the Stadium’s main gate, standing with General Rosso in front of a huge crowd. She is a little nervous. She wishes she had…

He cocks the gun and presses it against my forehead, directly onto Julie’s Band-Aid. Here it comes. Here is M’s ever-present irony. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years…