Richard Montanari: Four Novels Of Suspense - Plot & Excerpts
It provided counsel and protection to teenaged runaways; since its founding nearly a decade earlier, more than two thousand girls had passed through its doors.The storefront building was whitewashed and clean, recently painted. The insides of the windows were webbed with ivy and flowering clematis and other climbing plants, woven through white wooden latticework. Byrne imagined that the purpose of the greenery was twofold. To mask the street—where all the temptations and dangers lurk—and to indicate to the girls who were considering just passing by that inside there was life.As he approached the front doors, Byrne knew it might be a mistake to identify himself as a police officer—this was anything but an official visit—but if he came in like a civilian, asking questions, he could be someone’s father, boyfriend, dirty uncle. At a place like the Passage House, he could be the problem.Out front, a woman was washing the windows. Her name was Shakti Reynolds. Victoria had mentioned her many times, always in glowing terms.
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