she shouted down the stairs. “Looks like we have company.” She set the paintbrush down on the plastic floor cover and took the turpentine with her to the bathroom to wash the paint off her hands. She hated using oil-based paint because of the lingering smell, but until they got the chalet aired ...
The proof is in the numbers. I know this. But they don’t. I’m a vacuum cleaner salesman. I used to sell shoes, but now I sell Kirby’s. I run door to door and try to sell my G8 Kirby upright vacuums. The killing has nothing to do with me, but one of the people I had just done a presentation for wa...
Getting on a highway would be a mistake. The authorities would be watching for him and were probably sending the information about this car to every available unit in the area at that moment. He sped north on Mount Pleasant Road, continuing until he hit Lawrence Avenue. Then he turned left and h...
Her live image was plastered on the huge screen. She couldn’t believe it. Rod must’ve got the call that she had removed her bracelet and when the Toronto Police radioed in that there would be a shooting, he had ordered her taken back into custody. He was attempting to stop her while she was stil...
She’d asked that Parkman ride in another vehicle so if they were attacked again it would limit the assailant’s odds at getting both her witnesses. Sarah could tell they were heading north. She hadn’t talked to anybody or asked where they were going. She needed some time to think. The big question...
To remove a soul. What I do is a form of cleansing. I take great pleasure in easing the world of the souls that burden it. The only problem is, each soul has to be worked and - after eight years on this one - I need to move on. I’m old, tired and ready to hand off some of my responsibilities to t...
Aaron swung the door open and hopped inside. “Daniel,” Aaron said, nodding at him. Alex and Benjamin Russell, two brothers who were the smartest students ever to come out of his dojo, sat in the back. He loved the relationship they had with Daniel. There were days in the dojo that he couldn’t te...
I felt a cool sheen of sweat on my brow, my heart beat against the inside of my chest. In the dim light coming through the curtains of my bedroom window, I saw a man I didn’t recognize. This had happened before, so I wasn’t immediately alarmed. But something was different this time. When I wok...
Someone was dead. She could feel it, but she couldn’t see them yet. As she walked around the display cases that held a variety of glass statues, the store clerk approached and asked if she needed any help. The store’s lights were bright, the air stale and dry. She turned, moistened her lips, and ...
Rosina had fallen asleep on the bed, after crying for two solid hours. He’d waited until she’d fallen asleep. He was wide awake from his long rest on the plane, and he was bent and bound to do something about the threat that had befallen his family, his wife. He got up, put on his shoes, and wal...