He was big and strong, blond and blue. We hadn’t talked more than a minute before Matt managed to change the subject to his high school jock history. Eventually, he said, “I wanted to kill those guys. One guy, he didn’t keep a firm grip on his rifle, and I was really tempt...
A place where I could stay.”“Is that what you wish for? A place of your own?”“It doesn’t have to be mine. I just want a place where I don’t have to leave if I don’t want to.”THIRTY-EIGHTThe next day Diamond was already gone when we got up. While we ate breakfast, I turned on Diamond’s computer an...
We’d gotten the information we came for. Bruno Valenti had died, and the injured young man was unlikely to talk considering he was the one trying to kill us. But the ex-cop in me needed to play by the rules. Most of the rules, anyway. So I called the polizia. &...
The skipper wrestled with the wheel of the restored Gar Wood wooden boat. He had left his dock on Hurricane Bay on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe and headed east-southeast, toward Glenbrook, twelve miles away on the far side of the mountain lake. He’d barely gone one hundred yards from shore before...
I said to Simone. “Would you like us to pick you up?”“Yes, but what about Ned? He’ll find me here tonight.”“There’s a cop outside your door. I’ll tell the nurses at the front counter to keep your room number a secret and to call the police if he shows up. Do you have a picture of Ned?” She nodded...