She sat heavily. The shock and anger scarcely registered on the surgically tightened mask of her face. But her whole body was trembling. “Mrs. Lomax?” It took her a moment to look up. “That woman in the hall out there,” she said. “The tall blonde, h...
“Am I a suspect again?” He walked into the office. A nasty combination of motive, opportunity, and the apparent lack of an alibi had put him in my sights a couple of years ago, but only briefly. “No, no—not at all. But I have to ask…what brought you out to the middle of th...
We could see the glow of the blaze from the rise in the road, after the first Tom Nevers turn off. A sinuous length of smoke was rising from the fields beyond the cranberry bogs, dispersing against the high clear stars. It was almost two thirty in the morning. A full moon was casting a chalky lig...
