‘I don’t think I should say anything else,’ she said, once she could again summon words. ‘May I go?’ The city cop had nodded, and Rogovoy had heaved himself to his feet to escort her out. ‘There’s something you’re not telling us,’ he said as he walked her down the hall. ‘And that’s a mistake. I d...
It was a relief, really, not to have to pretend any more. Mona meant well, but all this talk about curses and hauntings just gave Dulcie the creeps. ‘Words cannot conjure bad luck,’ she muttered to herself. ‘Words are simply tools for communication.’ After a lifetime of Lucy, whose vaguely Wiccan...
But just then Lindsay, from her junior tutorial, showed up at the open door and, without knocking, slumped down in the one visitor chair the two officemates shared. ‘So, I was thinking about what you were saying the other day in class.’ Without so much as a greeting, the lanky junior seemed to be...
And as much as I wanted to examine that flash drive, after a short visit with Lily, I stuck it in my pocket and drove over to the county shelter. I was probably on a fool’s errand, and I knew it. Plus, I was putting more miles on my little Toyota than I’d done all summer. But I was running short ...
Nancy, meanwhile, was fretting. ‘I shouldn’t have waited. She was out there. Hurt. Alone.’ Dulcie longed to comfort her – and to question the professor. But even as she was talking to voice mail, they heard a car pull up and suddenly the large detective was filling the doorway. Within minutes, he...
One animal’s treat is another’s trash, and neither species is really capable of understanding the other’s viewpoint. Therefore, I didn’t get too excited as Wallis preened, fluffing up her snowy bibb in anticipation of enlightening me. As much as she and I have come to understand each other, I wou...
Must have been a good party, then.’ Joanie’s voice sounded unnaturally loud in Dulcie’s cubicle. But despite the throbbing headache, Dulcie wasn’t complaining. ‘Margaritas,’ she said as explanation, both to her office mate, who today had traded her customary black for a virulent purple, and to he...
anyone.’ Dulcie couldn’t believe she was defending herself. ‘I went to tell the police what I’d seen. And, yeah, I recognized Dimitri from the photo. But I never said he was the man I’d seen. I don’t understand it.’ ‘Who uses the phrase “rat out,” anyway?’ Trista focused on the etymology. Lloyd s...