He’d driven back home wrapped in a cloud of sorrowful self-righteousness. He’d made a sad decision, but it was the right one. He and Jade were always going to be an uneasy partnership at best, and an impossible one at worst. Far more sensible to bring this troubled relationship to an end. In fact...
It was dark outside and she could hear the chirps of the earliest birds above the insistent buzzing of her phone. She squinted at the screen, impossibly bright to her sleepy eyes, and recognized the number. It was David calling.“Got a murder victim here, Jadey,” he said.Jade turned on the bedside...
Searching for any movement; listening for the slightest sound; looking for the reflection of light off glass or other telltale signs that somebody was already out there. Waiting for him, watching him. From here, the dirt road that ran past his gate was barely visible. It s...
It’s a plain economy vehicle. Cheap, but relatively new. The one luxury that it does have, which the driver is very glad about, is a radio. Crackly, but functional. The driver is listening to music that would sound totally unfamiliar to me, fascinating and somehow unsettling in its strangeness, a...