I have seen her after some nights that would have killed me (booze, sex and more sex, little or no sleep) when she still looked fresh and dewy-eyed. Her hair, which was much lighter than Maxine’s, worn high off her forehead and fluffy around the sides of her face, would look as if it had just bee...
Justice Charles Ferguson Litterick, fifty-five, known in the trade (to crooks, lawyers, court officials, and police) simply as Charlie, ambled back toward me from his seat by the flight deck. He had been away from the western Arctic for a year, working in Ottawa as an adviser on land claims matte...
Lately it seemed as if he couldn’t get them clean enough, washing them dozens of times a day. Tommy wondered whether he was developing obsessive compulsive disorder or a conscience. Not that either option was particularly appealing. One would get him an appointment with a shrink, the other a date...