He selected Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor and hit play. It was six-thirty, so he had half an hour to shower and change before he went out.This concerto had been written towards the end of Mozart’s life and was widely considered to be a masterpiece. Influential, too. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto ...
She was sitting on the edge of the bed, Winter beside her. He was close enough so she knew he was there, but not so close that he invaded her personal space. It showed a degree of empathy she wouldn’t have expected from someone so young. A degree of empathy she certainly wouldn’t have expected fr...
The whisky was a single malt that had spent a large part of the past two decades in a dark cellar in the Scottish Highlands. Her glass was crystal and lived in her suitcase. Winter’s tumbler was plastic and she’d found it in the bathroom. This was the reason she carried her own glass. Drinking a ...
Except for Hannah, I hadn’t seen any other signs of life. The overhead lights cast a dim glow on the red and white chessboard floor. Long-dead movie stars stared down at us from the walls.Taylor and Hannah had started arguing and bickering back at Dan Choat’s place. They’d kept this up all the wa...
My eyes flit from person to person, but don’t linger. Just a quick glance, long enough to see if he’s here, then on to the next. The unsub has given me a description, but nobody matches it. And the reason nobody matches it is because he’s given me a false description. And the reason he did that i...