The cut in her leg throbbed and burned. Alice wedged herself deeper into a rock crevice high off the ground. Clawing her way up to the narrow sanctuary had taken hours and turned her muscles to jelly. She peered into the blue and crimson sunset. Light reflected off the windows of the farmhouse wh...
A straw hat was jammed onto his head to keep the midday sun off. Two mangy kittens burrowed into the blanket tossed over his paralysed legs. 'Anne's father,' Miss Morgensen said when they reached the front door. 'Used to be a railway shunter. Hit by a train. That's all that's left. Anne's mother ...
He and Daglish set off in an anticlockwise direction taking them through the garden and around to the front of the cottage. Daglish picked a fallen leaf off the path and threw it under an azalea bush. ‘The garden boy and the maid have the day off,’ she explained. ‘Talk spr...
Emmanuel pulled the sedan into the patch of dirt that was the front yard. The early-morning light did nothing to soften the hard edge of poverty.He exited the car, and the first stone, sharp and small, hit him in the cheek and drew blood. The second and third stones hit, full force, into his ches...