Maybe there is an instinct to the hunt, a subconscious nerve-twang, that prompts a detective to make a try, and, when it succeeds, he is acclaimed for his cleverness and it reconfirms his own confidence and sets in concrete his original perspective. Farris had the letter, of course, that damning ...
I’d warned Cole Clanton that he faced a police investigation if anything happened to Nick, but there were others who found Nick unlovable: the voluptuous Lisa Sanford; her husband, Brian; Albert Harris, who thought he deserved to share in the riches cascading into Phidippus’s pocket; and Nick’s b...
She had stopped believing in pots of gold under four-leaf clovers by the time she was eight, but on this gorgeous, clear, brilliant morning she felt as if everything was going to come up roses. Even if Elaine Jamison had thrown away a gun yesterday in the marsh, she felt confident that Elaine was...